Swedish Transport Administration electric road program

The Swedish Transport Administration electric road program (Swedish: Trafikverkets Program för Elvägar) or Swedish Transport Administration Electrification Program (Swedish: Trafikverkets Program för Elektrifiering)[1] is a program involving the assessment, planning, and implementation of an electric road national infrastructure for Sweden by Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration.

The fact-finding program began in 2012[2] and assessments of various electric road technologies in Sweden began in 2013.[3]: 12  Trafikverket expected the final report of the Swedish electrification commission by the end of 2022,[4] but it was delayed until December 2024.[5]

The final report of the second Swedish-German research collaboration on electric road systems, CollERS 2, advised Trafikverket to select a single ERS technology, suitable for heavy trucks, with several suppliers who use an existing standard, coordinated with German and French ERS decisions, not necessarily led by the European Union but with their coordination, utilizing an ERS-technology-neutral payment system.[6] In 2024 the CollERS project was renewed and extended to include France.[7] The first standard for on-board ground-level power supply equipment for electric road vehicles was published in late 2022,[8] with a complete set of standards expected by the end of 2024.[9]

The first permanent electric road in Sweden was as of 2023 planned to be built on a section of the E20 route between Hallsberg and Örebro.[10] Trafikverket was expected to announce its chosen technology for electric roads by late 2023,[11] but due to procurement offers exceeding the project's budget, in 2023 Trafikverket began investigating cost-reducing measures in order to realize the project within its budget.[12] The E20 project was funded at 500-600 million SEK, or about 24-29 million SEK per two lane-kilometers.[13] As of 2024, the procurement process is expected to begin again at the end of 2025.[14]

  1. ^ Trafikverket (June 24, 2020), Trafikverkets Program för Elvägar byter namn, archived from the original on August 14, 2021
  2. ^ "Test och demonstration - resultat, erfarenheter, lärande och reflektioner", Region Gävleborg, March 24, 2023
  3. ^ Swedish Transport Administration (November 29, 2017), National roadmap for electric road systems (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on November 24, 2020
  4. ^ Kenneth Natanaelsson (March 26, 2021), Elektrifiering av transportsystem (PDF), Trafikverket, archived from the original (PDF) on March 2, 2022
  5. ^ Energimyndigheten (Swedish Energy Agency) (January 2023), Delrapport inom uppdraget om handlingsprogram för laddinfrastruktur och tankinfrastruktur för vätgas, p. 20
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference collers-final-2024 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference france-joins-collers was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference TS50717 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference CollERS2-regulatory was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Kenneth Natanaelsson (March 17, 2023), "Elväg Örebro-Hallsberg, Infradagen 2023", Mälardalsrådet
  11. ^ Per Mattsson (January 18, 2023), "40 experter: Så blir det nya mobilitetsåret", Dagens industri
  12. ^ "Vi avbryter upphandlingen för Sverige första permanenta elväg", Trafikverket, August 28, 2023
  13. ^ Johan Kristensson (September 5, 2023), "Skjuts upp – därför skenade kostnaden för Sveriges första permanenta elväg", NyTeknik
  14. ^ Lesley Brown (28 August 2024), "Electric Road Systems, towards decarbonising road transport", Futura Mobility, archived from the original on September 4, 2024