Siemens of Germany took the electric car world by storm last week, when the electric car show in Los Angeles showed off his project E Highway - an electrified highway rebuilt trucks equipped with a pantograph on the roof and electric motors to the wheels.

For two years, Siemens has worked with the project.  The easiest job has been to build on the trucks to diesel-electric hybrid drive with electric motors driving the wheels and a diesel engine which drives the generator.  It provides engines with power, when you can not access the telephone wires.

To provide the four-kilometer-long test track at an airfield outside Berlin with overhead power lines has not been a difficult nut to crack.  A standard work for a company like Siemens.

The hardest part has been to develop a collection devices can be disconnected and at high speeds, for example when overtaking.

It is exactly the type of active collection devices we have developed and we open presents at our website www.elvag.se. Siemens says honestly that you followed our work and draws inspiration from it.

He is one of the driving in the project Swedish Elvagar, which has received four million in the Energy Agency to develop a concept for the electrification of heavy traffic.

He was rather surprised when Siemens rang at the end of December last year and told me that they had followed the Swedish Elvagars work, developed a similar collection devices, built a complete test track, built on two trucks and driven for real.

We knew nothing of Siemens project.  But now we are just delighted that Siemens has done the job that we were not able to do, because we only got four of the ten million that we sought from the Vehicle Research Institute and the Energy Agency, said Harry Frank.

In March, he and his colleagues in the Swedish Elvagar test drive E-Highway. Also people from the Energy Agency and Traffic Authority has been to Berlin and tested the world's first electric highway.

You can now progress to accelerate, says Harry Frank.

In Sweden, the Transport Administration is investigating the possibility of electrifying the road between the new Pajala mine and Svappavaara. The idea is to run electrified, heavy ore shipments on a reinforced road to the railway line between Lulea and Narvik.

We are looking at even more ways that might benefit from electrified in this way.  This is no fantasy. It's incredibly easy to build on the trucks and the electrification of the roads, said Harry Frank.