[kelseyfrog]

Me searching for the electric tanks. ¯ \ _ ༼ •́ ͜ ʖ •̀ ༽ _ / ¯

Edit: I found them :D

[adrian_b]

I do not know if any such tanks are in production, but there where experimental electric tanks, just not with batteries, but with turbogenerators.

[kelseyfrog]

Great question! Turns out there are. The U.S. Military's Abrams Tank Is Going Hybrid [1]. I'm sure we'll get some comments saying why it's a terrible idea[2].

1. https://insideevs.com/news/784805/abrams-m1e3-hybrid-tank-vi...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484044

[kayodelycaon]

They didn’t make it past the drones.

[ThatMedicIsASpy]

and I wonder which blown up tank would pollute the environment more

[triceratops]

If you're worried about the environment don't get into wars. If you're in a war, worry about winning.

Wars of the future will make heavy use of drones. They don't run on hydrocarbons.

[kelseyfrog]

I don't really think that's really high up on military priorities list. But happy to be proven wrong on that.

[make3]

tanks must represent like 0.001% of fuel consumption lol Road uses like cars, trucks and buses is 47% of all oil, and clearly an enormous fraction of that can be converted to use electricity instead