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Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

You see light poles or buildings with lights along roads? The base for the electrical infrastructure is already there!!

They are expirementing now by mixing cement and carbon black (materials that have been around for thousands of years) and incorporating it into a roadway. The mixture can hold and transfer electricity. Vehicles could be charged while moving.
MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Well there is the old stand by-----a bathtub full of water and toss in a plugged in toaster...that mixture can also transfer electricity...give er' a shot