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World's first sodium-ion electric mining truck delivered in China with 676 kWh battery capacity (carnewschina.com)
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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Mining is a 24/7 operation. There is no "over night" rest period. You need batteries that can charge during breaks for workers and usually they have 3 breaks in a 12 hour shift.

So 4 hours runtime, 20 minutes back to full charge is a pretty good fit.

Never mind the couple of megawatts needed to charge a 600kW battery in 1/3rd of an hour. 2 MW is enough to comfortably power ~100 homes. Have a fleet of these on charge and you're drawing the same amount of power as a small town.