wrote:
LOCAL trucks, LOCAL trains, and LOCAL busses, but not those hauling
crap between cities, much less across the country.

Absent the invention of Mr. Fusion, there isn't going to be any
electric powered trucks hauling carrots from Fresno to Chicago.

Ahem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_locomotive


Anyway, why move the long-haul trucks when you can move the road (using
electricity) instead? Ever read Robert Heinlein's "The Roads must Roll"?
;-)

(I understand H. G. Wells had moving roads in "When the Sleeper Wakes"
though I haven't read it - even though the full text is online on a couple
sites, including project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/775)