Hungary to join German eHighway pilot project

The Hungarian Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics was in Stuttgart this week where he announced his country's participation in the pilot of the eHighway project launched by the German state of Baden-Württemberg. eHighway is looking to use electric cables above motorways to power hybrid trucks and heavy goods vehicles.

“Hungary is to become involved in projects relating to the electric highway being developed by the German state of Baden-Württemberg”, said Palkovics to Hungarian news agency MTI.

He said that the Hungary – Baden-Württemberg Joint Economic Committee held a plenary session in Budapest in June. “The meeting in Budapest, which was chaired by Green party politician, State Minister Theresa Schopper, was followed by several other ‘fruitful talks’ in the capital of the German state, which is regarded as an engine of innovation”.

As he explained, the processes that began in Budapest must be continued and supplemented with further ones, adding that possibilities for further cooperation were primarily examined from within the fields of innovation and research. “Intensive negotiations also took place on energy-related issues, for instance on the use of hydrogen generated using electricity as a so-called intermediate energy carrier (for the storage and transport of renewable energy), which will also be included in Hungary’s National Energy Strategy”, he added.

In addition to meeting the heads of research centres and major corporations, Mr. Palkovics also held talks with political leaders, including Deputy Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg and the state’s Minister of the Interior, Digitalisation and Migration Thomas Strobl, the President of the state’s section of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and with Wolfgang Reinhart, head of the party’s group in the state parliament (Landtag).

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