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What if the wires were as free to use as the roads themselves? Instead of just one city trolleybus every few minutes you could have a whole world of privately owned In-Motion Charging vehicles. Imagine the wires feeding vans, trucks, private bus lines, anything you don't want shitting diesel fumes as it idles in traffic.
This obviously doesn't make sense if electricity generation is constrained or expensive, but as fusion power comes online and energy gets an order of magnitude cheaper it could become worth it for cities to just eat the cost and reap the other benefits, or have some other higher level government subsidize the programs.
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I asked Claude Opus about this and it's apparently profitable for certain congested truck routes between seaports or railyards and interstate onramps even with current energy prices if fuel prices stay high enough (lol California). If it can work at 55-65mph (current trolleybus systems usually top out at 40mph), some pretty decent chunks of interstate running through cities can be worth it. Imagine all the shitty diesel noise of urban traffic jams replaced with silence.