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Mining is an incredibly long way away from electric vehicles.
by _AzMoo 2y ago
Mining is an incredibly long way away from electric vehicles.
- abenga 2y agoI've read articles and watched a few YouTube videos about electric mining trucks that are already in use in Australia, Canada, and other places.
- Gibbon1 2y agoA good bit to know is the power/energy requirements for vehicles is logarithmic. Large vehicles need less energy per unit weight than smaller ones. A motorcycle might have 300hp per ton. Passenger car 100hp/ton. Train maybe 20hp/ton. South Dakota-class battleship is 3hp/ton. So yeah size isn't an impediment to electrification.
- hengheng 2y agoSome mines are lucky in that trucks deliver payload downhill, making it attractive to charge batteries regeneratively for the empty drive back up. Where that is not the case, electric driving is not attractive at all. Conveyors and cable cars are much easier to electrify, if applicable.
- _AzMoo 2y agoOh good, I'm glad you've got expert knowledge in the domain. I work on software that manages vehicles in mines.
- audunw 2y agoIt’s not incredibly long way at all considering that there’s already electric mining truck in operations. Several varieties in fact (overhead wire and battery-electric). But they’re a very long way from approaching 100% of mining if that’s what you mean.