The Swedes are cleaning up trucking with old-timey tech.

Grist
By Heather SmithOct 3, 2016, 9:46 am81 pts
A two-kilometer section of a highway in central Sweden has been fitted up with heavy-duty, overhead electrical cables — the kind that crisscrossed major cities in the 1880s to provide electricity for streetcars. Turns out a big truck is not so different from a streetcar — if you have one that’s…

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