"Electrified road" refers to the road on which catenary is erected to provide continuous electric energy for electric vehicles. It consists of transportation equipment (vehicles) and infrastructure (substation, overhead power supply catenary roads etc.).
Once an electric vehicle enters the power supply area, the pantograph automatically identifies the catenary erected on the road and lifts to touch the catenary. Once the vehicle leaves the power supply area, the pantograph automatically lowers and
the vehicle switches to the on-board power battery drive. The heavy truck with this function is called dual-source intelligent
heavy truck.
CRRC Datong has set up an in-house "electrified road" DC catenary to test advanced technologies such as dual-source
intelligent DC power supply, intelligent pantograph and DC/DC cabinet for heavy trucks. By virtue of homemade core compo
nents, it has created many China's firsts in terms of technology and possessed the technical strength of platform-based devel
opment and serialization of products.
Electrified roads and mine transportation systems can further integrate permanent magnet, new energy, autonomous driving and other technologies, to widely apply to various road transportation applications such as coal enterprises, mines,
power plants and coal logistics parks to help achieve the "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality".
