SolaRoad
Sign in to saveThe SolaRoad was the world's first bike path made from solar panels, and was a prototype project testing the feasibility of various proposals for smart highways. The path opened in the week of 21 October 2014, and was designed by a consortium of organizations, which built the pathway in Krommenie, Netherlands.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- prototype
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Zaanstad
- Location
- Krommenie
- Official website
- www.solaroad.nl
- Image
- Solaroad7.JPG
- Length
- 90
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- inception
- 2014-00-00
- Commons category
- Solaroad
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Consortium
- Technology
- Problems and critics
- Results of trial
- Trials with heavy traffic
- Comparable initiatives
- References
The SolaRoad was the world's first bike path made from solar panels, and was a prototype project testing the feasibility of various proposals for smart highways. The path opened in the week of 21 October 2014, and was designed by a consortium of organizations, which built the pathway in Krommenie, Netherlands.
The path was formally opened in November 2014 by the Dutch Minister of Energy Henk Kamp.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SolaRoad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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