For giggle I ran the math for semi trucks using the Tesla Semi which does 82,000# full up loads at 1.7 kWh per mile PepsiCo has over a year of real.world data backing that up now in hilly California at that.
To electrify all US semi-trucks, approximately 300 to 500 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity would be needed annually, requiring the equivalent output of roughly 34 to 57 1-gigawatt (GW) nuclear reactors.
France has more than this in a country 20,000 sq miles SMALLER than Texas.
The total annual distance traveled by all US semi-trucks is approximately 300 billion miles per year (or 300,000,000,000 miles/year). To power these trucks using a Tesla Semi’s average efficiency, approximately 510 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity would be required annually. This amount of electricity could be generated by approximately 58 continuously operating 1-gigawatt (GW) nuclear reactors
Nukes are forever energy it is that simple.
Moving rail by freight train is almost four times more efficient as moving it by a semi truck they’re already been prototypes for they repowered a conventional diesel electric by putting a battery tender behind it and piping in high voltage DC directly to the motors didn’t even have to take the diesel engine off it still remains there so you can use it as a diesel hybrid 9.1 megawatt hour Box Car allows you to pull a thousand Revenue tons for 150 miles
BYD has a 14.5 megawatt hour 20 foot iso box system . Three of those would fit in a standard 60’ American lenght box car. That’s 43.5 megawatt hours in a standard USA box car things get interesting then. 43.5 MWh sends a 1000 Tonne class 1 train 717 miles. With a single tender car supplying that range you could sacrifice one or two.revenue cars and double or triple that range.
The average class one locomotive in Freight Service averages 150 miles per day total range that’s why it was chosen for that size battery box of course there’s longer distance runs like Chicago to LA those have 700 miles per day. Drivers and engineers need rest and crews are swapped along such a long route it would be easy to uncouple the locomotive and it’s single tender car and swap it with a new tender and loco plus fresh crew once every 24 hours with another minimum Four Man Crew since the feds live at 12 hours for the engineers behind the controls of a train.
This of course solves the problem of the vast American flyover country that’s too expensive to Electrify no need to Electrify when you can just use a single battery box car and drop it off once a day at a marshalling yard that’s hooked up to the power grid preferably charged by nukes that are on site