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Edison motors hybrid trucks are dead (for now) due to Canadian emissions regulations
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The real alternative is to go all in on trains as electric trucks. Rubber on tarmac friction is so high that driving electric trucks long distance is super inefficient and giving them the batteries to match the ranges done by diesel trucks eats too much into cargo capacity to make them really worth it.