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The largest trucks in the world use electric motors.

Really? Proof? Used in general haulage are they? Austrailia has some
of the heaviest road going trucks there are. They're all diesel.

And they're *TINY* compared to some of the really big stuff out there.

Think of quarries and mines.

The largest trucks in the world tend to be hydraulically driven,

No, electric motors propel them.

yawn

They are diesel/electric.

Electric motors propel them.

How much of a battery pack will be needed to replace 10.5 ton of 3650bhp
Detroit diesel?

How do sizeable AC motors run off batteries without significant losses?

Toshiba may be able to help you out here. You know what. In WW1 and WW2
batteries propelled tons of metal through water...called submarines.