Electric road E20, Hallsberg–Örebro

The purpose of the pilot electric road project was to verify and demonstrate the technology by installing and testing a complete electric road system with ancillary services, toll and access system, etc. The pilot project would have been Sweden’s first permanent electric road.

The project will not go forward

In February 2025, the Swedish government decided that Sweden’s first permanent electric road would be removed from the National plan for transport infrastructure. In practice, this means the Swedish Transport Administration is no longer assigned to build the electric road on E20 between Hallsberg and Örebro, the pilot project has no funding, and is therefore terminated.

After careful analysis and consideration, the Swedish Transport Administration decided to put the electric road project on hold in 2024. Earlier, the procurement was cancelled in August 2023 due to increased costs, and lack of required funding to build Sweden's first permanent electric road.

The Swedish Transport Administration is still assigned to monitor the future development of electric road technology.

Decision on choice of route: Sweden’s first electric road would have been constructed between Hallsberg and Örebro

It was decided that Sweden’s first permanent electric road would be built on the section of the E20 European motorway between Hallsberg and Örebro. This investment in electric roads was intended to contribute to the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from freight traffic.

Heavy goods vehicles are responsible for a large proportion of carbon dioxide emissions from road traffic. We need to analyse how various electrification solutions to bring us closer to the goal of fossil-free transport actually work in practice.

The choice of route was between the E20 Hallsberg–Örebro and Route 73 Västerhaninge–Nynäshamn. The priorities and choice of route were based on a number of criteria such as road type, traffic volumes, transport arrangements, the natural and cultural environment, the available power supply and national defence interests.

Örebro and Hallsberg are located in the middle of the logistics triangle between Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. In addition, we saw that a number of companies use this particular route for a great deal of their transport. Taken together, this provided good conditions for the pilot to realise the anticipated results, as well as being important prerequisites for any future expansion.

There was a consensus between the Swedish Transport Administration and Region Örebro County on the need to transport goods in a climate-smart manner in an area of growing logistical importance to Sweden.