The performance was all the more respectable because the 23-year-old Italian was forced to drive part of the night-time stage without lights after an electrical problem.

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Electrical contacts made through the holes in the strip would drive electro-mechanical counters.

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Electrical drive trains are displacing mechanical ones in factories, ships, hybrid cars and all the other heavy-lifting sectors of the economy.

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Helping Komatsu persuade the mine operator to switch was a new drive system that instead of the conventional mechanical axle and cogs uses rear-wheel-mounted electrical motors.

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