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Originally Posted by stillsearching
FWIW i'm not 100% stuck on electric, it might well be a hydraulic or even pneumatic motor
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The only hybrid-hydraulic trucks I can recall are RWD-only, IIRC Freightliner still makes step-van chassis with this setup, and they use a 6-cyl Cummins but it's backed by an automatic transmission. The closest to what you're thinking about is to replicate in a larger size the setup used by Yamaha in some of their off-road racing motorcycles such as the WR 426 2-Trac which had a hydraulic rotor connected to the gearbox to provide auxiliary front-wheel drive.