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- Embed this noticeThe only application where electricity makes sense for linear propulsion is the railway engine, where the diesel power-plant is on the same frame with the DC traction motors. The electricity is consumed the instant it was generated, and it is generated at the rate it is required. You will find no other application in the same category, all other applications are for a niche (research submarines, space exploration, toys).
Diesel has the self-life around 12 months, electricity has zero shelf-live. Diesel is stored in cheap and plentiful stainless steel containers while electricity is "stored" in rare-earth cells, balanced by complex circuits. Internal resistance, leakage between the cells and by the balancing circuits LIMITS the maximum power or energy productions, which means you will not find comparable power plants. The crude tanker's diesel, which is running on its own cargo the crude, some of which exceeds 100,000 HP.
At that level V=IR would require you to build with copper conductors which are an inch in diameter, and your active electronics would have to be build with transistors where the traces are 30 gauge wires.