The Netherlands has opened the world's first autonomous electric truck smart charging motorway — a 350-kilometre corridor from Rotterdam to Hamburg with wireless inductive charging pads embedded in the right lane of the motorway, allowing autonomous electric trucks to charge continuously while driving without any stops, cables, or driver intervention.
The Dynamic Wireless Road Charging system embeds copper coil charging pads at 5-metre intervals in the road surface, wirelessly transferring 200 kilowatts per truck continuously at speeds up to 90 kilometres per hour through magnetic resonance coupling. A fully loaded 40-tonne autonomous electric truck receives enough energy while travelling the full 350-kilometre corridor to arrive with the same charge level as departure — achieving effectively infinite electric truck range on this route without any battery stop.
Dynamic wireless road charging eliminates the need for large onboard batteries entirely, allowing trucks with smaller 100 kilowatt-hour packs to operate unlimited range on equipped corridors. The Netherlands has approved dynamic charging installation on all 12 major freight motorway corridors connecting Rotterdam Port to European distribution centres.
Source: Rijkswaterstaat Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure, TNO Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, European Commission CEF Transport Programme, 2025
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