David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)It sounds as if electric trucks are great for long-range land transport. But they require heavy batteries, so rather than putting them on the road (where they'll damage the road surface), why don't we build special metal tracks for them to go on? And, on long trips, join a bunch of them together so that you only need one motor and driver for a load of them travelling in a convoy? I bet you could make freight transport a lot more efficient if you did that.
utzer@david_chisnall and if this takes off lets figure out how we can charge them during the trip, maybe continously with some kind of line and metal contact that moves along the line. If we could charge them continously we could probably leave out the batteries, reduce the weight and make it all more efficient.