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If it's for last-mile transportation, you probably don't want 500 mile range; at that point you're just paying more to reduce the payload by filling it with batteries. These are presumably targeting long-range.

Germany has a small-scale test of overhead lines for trucks: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/03/business/electric-trucks-...

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> Germany has a small-scale test of overhead lines for trucks

And the accompanying ridicule for recreating a railroad, just with less efficiency because tires consume a good chunk of the truck's energy in deformation and because you need way more drivers than if you would just put the damn bunch of trucks onto flatbed rail carriages.

The entire project was nothing more than a smokescreen by the automotive industry.

"But the onus would be on the German government to build the overhead cables, which cost an estimated 2.5 million euros per kilometer, or about $5 million per mile."

“Numerous studies have come to the conclusion that overhead cable trucks, despite the high infrastructure costs, are the most cost-effective option,” the ministry said.

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