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Electrify All the Big, Noisy, Belching Trucks
(www.nytimes.com)
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Delivering a single person by train is also stupid, but in a lot of places there are enough people making similar journeys that having a train does make sense. The same can be applied to freight.
Replacing every truck with an electric one would be an environmental disaster. More freight needs to be moved by rail, and the trucks that we still need should be electric.
And my content doesn't go against that. Just electrifying trucks won't solve the problem. We need fewer trucks.