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Hybrid truck recharges from overhead wires in Germany
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An old idea first mentioned by Werner Siemens 1847, and first realized a caouple decades later (1882 in Germany, 1889 in the US and 1899 in France). This technique was popular in bigger cities in the GDR and nearly completely died off with the German reunification. Since the 2010's it has a revival due to the focus on green technologies.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_des_Oberleitungsbusses