Trolleytruck

[5] Trolleytrucks were used to carry dynamite over the Alps just after World War II due to the shortages of material that for a time prevented the use of diesel trucks.

The German Federal Ministry for the Environment is building a network of overhead wires along the autobahn for diesel-electric hybrids, allowing trucks to cruise on electric power.

[4] The diesel electric drive Komatsu 730E dump trucks were converted at that time to use trolley power assist for the climb out of the mine to the crusher.

ISCOR (now known as Mittal Steel South Africa) is the largest user of trolley power assist trolleytruck systems in the world.

The first public electrified motorway opened in Sweden on 22 June 2016 on a stretch of European route E16 near Gävle, allowing hybrid and battery electric Scania lorries to run from overhead wires.

[19] From 1939 to 1964 the International Salt Company mine in River Rouge, Michigan, used trolleytrucks that were converted Euclid 20 short tons (18 t) models.

The long extension cords stored on powered reels aboard the trolleytrucks offered them increased mobility right at the load point.

The announcement stated the eHighway would be a one-mile two-way stretch of road on the north- and south-bound sections of Alameda Street near where it intersects with Sepulveda Boulevard in Carson, California.

The trucks have a second power source (diesel, compressed natural gas (CNG), or battery) so they can pull out from under the wires e.g. to pass a stopped vehicle, or when not using the eHighway.

[21] The initial announcement anticipated the trials would start in 2015; however, the system did not begin use until 2017[22] The El Chino Mine near Santa Rita, New Mexico installed trolleytrucks in 1967.

[4] Inexpensive hydroelectricity is generated at the Kariba Power Station along the Zambezi river and distributed throughout the "copper belt" of Zambia.