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		favorited on Nov 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck Germany is also experimenting with electrified highways, where trucks charge their batteries via a pantograph for stretches of the autobahn. Of course, they're also shuttering nuclear plants and reopening coal plants, so you might call it a step forward and a half-step backward... https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tests-first-ehighway-autobahn/...

imtringued on Nov 18, 2023 [–]

This keeps getting repeated but the percentage of coal in the electricity mix hasn't risen whatsoever. What's getting delayed is a higher renewable percentage. The problem in Germany isn't "more coal".

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