Truck tears down tram overhead line in Marzahn-traffic jam and chaos!

In the Berlin Mahlsdorf, on Wednesday morning, January 8, 2025, there was an incident that resulted in considerable traffic restrictions. According to a report by the Berliner Zeitung , a truck at the intersection B1/B5 Alt-Mahlsdorf/Hönower Straße. The incident led to a traffic jam of more than 15 minutes in a city -of -city direction and also affected BVG's tram traffic on line 62.

As a result, replacement traffic between the Mahlsdorf Süd and S Mahlsdorf stations was set up to help the affected passengers. The traffic restrictions and the traffic jam at the intersection caused considerable inconvenience for the commuters in the region.

test tracks for climate -neutral trucks

In another context, Tagesschau On the development and testing of truck with overhead lines in several federal states, including Hesse, Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Württemberg. These systems should enable commercial vehicles to drive electrical energy, similar to trams.

On a test track on Autobahn 5 between Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt, 400 masts with overhead lines were installed. Hybrid trucks that are equipped with electricity customers are tested by various freight forwarders for commercial use. These trucks use electrical energy if they are within the overhead line zones and switch outside to battery operation or diesel.

The Technical University of Aachen carries out similar tests in Brandenburg, but has also found initial problems and technical difficulties, such as the exchange of insulators and unreliable data transmission. It has also been shown that the GPS control of the systems often leads to the power buyers cannot be extended or obtained in time. The functionality of the overhead lines has been confirmed, but the ecological benefit remains unclear. According to research from the TU Darmstadt, a reduction in greenhouse gases between 16 and 21 percent could be determined on the Hessian test track.

The economic aspects of these test programs are also questionable, since the operating costs of the overhead line trucks are currently higher than those of diesel loaders. In addition, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport is planning to demolish the test track in the coming year to better use resources. In the current discussion, the focus of the Federal Ministry of Transport is increasingly placed on battery -electric drives, fuel cells and hydrogen, while the overhead lines are only mentioned in passing.