Fully agree its is odd IF it is diesel generator farm to charge the batteries. Gold Fields a big South African gold company is saving a bucket load of cash by not using diesel generators at some of its sites. Just the huge cost of shifting 1000s of tonnes of diesel to remote sites is significant. The Price we pay by a factor of ??? 5 times plus at some remote mine places.
It is not just about C02 20,000 solar panel plans for BHP as some sites 51000 at another
"Leinster Nickel Operation in the Northern Goldfields. By the end of 2022, over 20,000 solar panels will be installed at this site alone, helping to power BHP Nickel West’s mining and concentrating operations at Leinster.
At Mt Keith Operation there are even more - with over 51,000 solar panels going in" that is a BIT of the power needed not all of it!
Once or twice in and out of a mine pit is really not enough I suspect. The Load per trip is a key, IF battery is 10-20 tonnes that comes out of the load the tuck can carry. The regerative braking might recover 10-20% of the energy on the trip back down of course. That may be for both FCEV and BEV.
"Mining group BHP and construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar have signed an agreement to electrify BHP’s entire truck fleet at the Escondida copper mine in Chile. The first Caterpillar 798 AC electric dump trucks are to be delivered in the second half of 2023."
BHP seems to be in with Komatsu as well as Cat.
"Komatsu forms alliance to decarbonise mining trucks"
Not happening yesterday of course. Nor is my Disco replacement or Refit
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