r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/guyoffthegrid • 4d ago

Hybrid truck recharges from overhead wires Video

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u/Marsweep 4d ago

So it's just a tram without tracks, right?

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u/straponkaren 4d ago

Corporations will do everything they can to invent everything they can except for a train, and the reason why is the taxes on the value of train tracks vs the government owning the roads. If the government owned the train tracks and managed them, we would have trains again.

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u/Sakuran_11 3d ago

Did you miss the part where this is a truck meant for taking cargo and meant to go to more than set locations, it needs highway travel and this is simply a charging convience, its meant to carry goods and serve as a normal truck with extra utility.