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Originally Posted by ksa8907
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Electric towing will be limited to local deliveries and day cab trucks. Heavy and long distance transport will be diesel and natural gas for a long time.
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Electric freight towing was done over a hundred years ago on an overhead electric train, no battery needed.
Semis are really quite terrible for moving freight across the nation, too bad we have let our train system and operators become incompetent and simply subsidize semis so we don’t think we bear their hidden costs.