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Not exactly. A trolleybuss will not run at 90km/h.

An articulated trolleybus having 1'A+A' axle formula (UIC carriage notation if you read it correctly) can easily exceed 100km/h.

And how often will it do so? Use case is somewhat different. Not that I am in favor of it. I would like to have trucks only for the last mile.

I am too in favor of trains in this regard but there are terrains that you can have a dual carriage road but have it impossible to make a standard gauge railway, even with racks.

Nor do trucks in the city. Put trolleybus on a highway and it could do 90km/h.

Do you know of any existing system of trolleybuses running at highway speeds? Equating the tech here is like equating trams with long-distance trains.

Well, it's city transport so they're installed in cities. But I don't see any technical issues to install them on highways if it proved to be cost-effective.

My city got a significant trolleybus network. It's on slow streets only because that's where public transit stops are. But from technical perspective, there's nothing stopping from putting them on a highway. The biggest issue is tight intersections downtown. They go painfully slow at those. Straight line? No problem at all and they can safely floor it. And boy is there a difference between flooring a trolley and a diesel bus...

Without evidence, I'm not at all convinced by your claim that there is no technical issues to doubling the speed and handling heavy freight. There is a reason trains are different than trams.

Just like there's some difference between trains, high speed trains and freight trains, there would be some differences between trolleys and freight-trolleys or high speed trolleys. But the fundamental design is +/- the same.

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