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World's first sodium-ion electric mining truck delivered in China with 676 kWh battery capacity (carnewschina.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't the pit downward, and they have to bring the load up?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Typically they blow off the top of a mountain and carry the load down.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

That is until they have taken the mountain down to surrounding elevation and keep going....

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Only when the orebody happens to be on the top of a mountain. Plenty of deep pits to haul up out of as well, but an overhead lines+pantograph setup allows you to use grid power for the hard bit and battery power for the easy bits on the level.