I’m no engineer so don’t expect a crazy in debt analysis from me, I’m just saying they already use overhead cables. Some electric trains have batteries for short movements away from overhead lines… I’m assuming this is a similar idea, recall these things have multi ton engines that are being removed not just diesel. If that huge engine is only being used for short distances it may be viable in the future to change those out for batteries as the electric drive system is already in place what would be removed is the diesel (more energy dense than battery I know) and the massive diesel engine and all it’s components, (all together likely close to the same if not less energy dense for short trips from the cables to the load site and back) considering all the electric system really needs to add is batteries and a controller it may be possible that the battery powered trucks could be viable in the future given the site has the proper infrastructure to support it.

some mines already use overhead cables to power trucks waiting in long lines and going up long grades. Really it’s a matter of allowing the trucks to go from the cables to a load site and then back to the cables… reasonable imo

Listen I’m a suburbanite idiot who would never ever give up private cars. But you wan the actual solution here MORE FUCKING TRAINS! If I could reasonably travel via train to and from work or shopping I would… if I had access to high speed rail I would travel to LA for work no problem, have access to a higher income and normalize housing prices across a larger region brining down demand in LA and bringing up demand along the train rout, stop trying to invest in stupid projects and just give us mother fucking trains!

This isn’t that crazy im pretty sure they are already diesel electric anyway so all they did was swap out the generator for a battery.