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I wonder if the hydraulic transmission might some day become victorious; as the ground shifts with respect to fuel efficiency, the use of copper, etc.  I don't see any fundamental reason why fluid drive should take a back seat to electric drive.  One reason we are doing it the electric way is that we have done it that way for so long.It is interesting that the hydraulic transmission has evolved as the preferred method for the high power drive trains in bulldozers, yet one of the major pioneers in that area was R.J. Letourneau, advocating what he called the "electric-wheel," as he called the principle.Letourneau coupled a diesel engine to a generator, and used the electricity to power traction motors.  He was an electric drive advocate swimming upstream with those who were more enamored with the idea of replacing gears with hydraulics.
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