Electric locomotives have been available since 1879, built by none other than Werner von Siemens, and today the vast majority of trains are electric. Of course

Electric locomotives have been available since 1879, built by none other than Werner von Siemens, and today the vast majority of trains are electric. Of course since then we've spent trillions on building a road network that we charge truck drivers basically nothing for, we continue to spend billions yearly on repairing the vast damage "road trains" cause that again we basically charge the logistics companies nothing for, we have not increased taxes on fuel in decades for a shortfall of hundreds of billions of dollars, the use of fossil fuels has caused trillions of external costs that have not been accounted for. Thousands of lives lost due to the enormous kinetic energy required to move trucks and the inherent in their design visibility and movement constraints that surpass the ability of humans to safely maneuver them. And all of this insanity has combined to make long distance truck transportation cheaper than the vastly more efficient (in any sense of the word) train. Electric trucks have their place: for last mile delivery, transport between plants in a manufacturing process. But they make about as much sense for long distance transport as their ICE brothers.