China First Solar Highway

This road brings positive effectiveness to renewable energy vehicles.

China first solar highway.

In late 2017 china opened its 1km solar highway in the shandong province s capital jinan south of beijing. According to state run cctv the jinan expressway has unique features and strength. These people joined the fertile disobedience movement to protect nature. But this special road which china has hailed as the world s first photovoltaic highway is designed to do a lot more than just harness the sun s rays for electricity and allow cars to get from a to b.

Located on the jinan expressway the solar road has been constructed using transparent concrete solar panels and an additional third layer. A new era has dawned with china s first solar powered highway opening up on thursday allowing cars to drive over the panels for the first time and block out the sun s rays. A massive chinese fleet is fishing off the galapagos islands. The china s first solar highway had opened to traffic in 28th december 2017 as the newest black technology this road not only can be trafficked it also can realize solar power generation to charge the vehicles which are moving on the load.

The project will save the space for building solar farms and shorten the transmission distance said xu chunfu the group s chairman. What is china s solar highway. Roofs and windows of buildings aren t the only surfaces that can be used to generate solar power. While the netherlands built a solar bike path in 2014.

France boasted the world s first solar panel road in late 2016 but that only covered half the area of the chinese version. China s first solar highway. In china construction has begun of the country s first solar. It spans 5 875 sq m and is capable of generating up to 1gwh every year enough to power 800 homes.

Solar roadways are now open. Why china s solar highway is special.