http://www.gizmag.com Mr. Fusion it ain't, but in what is believed to be a world first, a small town in the UK has debuted an electric municipal garbage truck that's powered by the garbage it collects. Kirklees council has deployed a modified Ford Transit with a 40kWh lithium-ion battery pack as its first silent garbage truck - and the trash it collects is burned back at the Energy from Waste center, generating enough energy to recharge the truck's batteries and pump another ten megawatts back into the power grid.en gizmag.com http://www.gizmag.com/electric-garbage-truck-is-powered-by-garbage/10915/#comment-30265 http://www.gizmag.com/electric-garbage-truck-is-powered-by-garbage/10915/#comment-30265 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:10:19 -0500 http://www.gizmag.com/electric-garbage-truck-is-powered-by-garbage/10915/#comment-1819 http://www.gizmag.com/electric-garbage-truck-is-powered-by-garbage/10915/#comment-1819 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:55:04 -0500