Electric Vehicles

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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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[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It uses an electric motor but it's powered by a diesel engine. It does have electric retarding braking but I don't see anything saying that energy is harvested and stored in a battery.

https://www.cat.com/en_US/products/new/equipment/off-highway-trucks/mining-trucks/15970073.html

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So the put a regenerative motor in a truck just to not use the energy. Ok boss.

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Look at the specs on the site I linked boss