Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck

Re:Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck by baseline-shift on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:30PM (#38312204)

I can see EV for next-gen mining equipment, the sort of behemoth that the wheels alone dwarf a man standing next to one - and still needded for mining new climate tech energy likel lithium, copper, silicon - but jeez, just some truck?

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Re:Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck by micwag on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:24PM (#38312902)

Not quite a behemoth but there is already a 120 ton mining EV:

https://www.emining.ch/

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Re:Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck by XorNot on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:47PM (#38313858)

EV for mining is already a big deal: you don't want to run diesel equipment underground in an enclosed space.

The optimisation for mining would be replacing more of the surface diesel generators with solar + batteries as a logistics optimisation.

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Re:Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck by kalleboo on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:41PM (#38314815)

I thought mining equipment like that already was electric?

1978: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288

> Gross power: 16.56 megawatts of externally supplied electricity

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Re:Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck by pornel on Saturday November 18, 2023 @10:42PM (#38328561)

There is an electric mining truck: https://electrek.co/2022/11/23/caterpillar-demonstrates-firs...

Already in operation: https://youtu.be/6TxMeHRq1mk?t=178

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