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What It Will Take to Electrify the Biggest Rigs on the Road

A Mercedes eActros LongHaul electric truck at the IAA Transportation show in Hanover, Germany, in September.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

We’re seeing carmakers do it. Now, it’s truck manufacturers’ turn to drive down costs and make battery-electric commercial vehicles — from vans to big-rig trucks — as cheap as those using diesel engines.