We'll need batteries that store ~20x more energy in the same mass before electric can compete with diesel for those heavy machines. Its not happening soon.

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Aluminium - air does come close.

(But everything else about it sucks.)

Aluminum air.... Isn't that thermite? I vaguely remember MacGyver using aluminum filings on a lock to break it

Same fire, just slower and with a different means of initiation :)