Meet Caterpillar’s First Battery Electric Large Mining Truck
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- From steam, to gasoline, to new dreams of a better, more sustainable world. A group of key mining customers recently witnessed history in the making as our very first battery electric large mining truck demonstrated exactly how far Caterpillar has come in our sustainable product journey.
Always awesome something built by Cat!
I pre-ordered one. I hope it's easy to clean and the gas mileage is good
That all depends, are you loads coming down hill or going up hill. Downhill is great, you will use no energy, it all comes from the regen system.
@@0GreatMerlin Not true actually
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Sorry Jack but exactly true. There are many mine systems where the energy to move the materials from the work face to the processing area is driven entirely by gravity. This can also be done with an electric truck. As it goes down hill with a full load, the energy is stored into the battery pack. Returning up the hill empty uses less energy than was stored and so the recharging is done by gravity.
@@0GreatMerlin You know a lot of mines where material is hauled downhill and not up? In those situations they just use gravity and push it downhill. No truck required.
@@erikkovacs3097 there are many mines like this, also that requires huge amounts of infrastructure to be built which is more expensive and time consuming than just buying an electric truck, this is a situation where electric would excell, especially considering the brakes would take an absolute whooping for the deasil trucks
¡Great achievement for the mining industry, well done Caterpillar!
Full battery powered haul truck have been out there for more than 15 years now. They dont work. Even than one doeant work in the real world. Loom up what goes in to tooth paste. Its about to be more than 15 dollars a tube at have the size. Ask your where does the power come from to charge the batteries. Smfh
@@jsheavy3923 People who believe in this "green" energy BS are either morons or so wealthy that they can afford to pay 2x-3x what fossil fuel energy costs.
I love the idea, but was hoping that this video might offer some info about the truck. Perhaps the marketing folks can provide a link to a video that describes the truck's capabilities?
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How many KwH is the battery ?
How many HP is the motor ?
The battery that Williams Advanced Engineering have built for Fortescue's first converted mining truck is 1.4MWh (1400kwh)
That's awesome and I am sure it's so much easier and versatile to build on electric engines and power. Anyhow I am curious where those monsters charge possibly been far away from powerplants or solar/wind... farms?? Also there must be a over a magnitude larger charging and battery demand. Any numbers?
lots are regenerative charging as it makes more electricity going down while fully loaded than it uses going uphill with an empty load.
The only power that it does use is for moving the load and the a small part of the weight of the truck.
As Alan said, regenerative charging recaptures most of the energy of the weight of the truck when going back down, so it's just the energy losses in that part of the equation.
Still far less energy used per cycle than a Internal Combustion truck, while you can turn the engine into a bad compressor, most of the return trip energy goes into the brakes.
As to energy sources, you can set up a solar bank, or a wind farm, or a coal plant or a plant burning cow patties. Very flexible.
@@0GreatMerlin More often then not the truck would be fully loaded coming out of a pit or traveling to tip heads. Regen will only capture a fraction of what is needed to complete a full trip.
It wouldn't be hard to set up wind solar plants
I like this truck!
awesome!
remote contrrol functions,,to finish works at the dangerous zone,,thanks
Is it Made in Decatur Illinois?
A prime questions for many mining companies will be down time to charge the vehicle and what infrastructure will be necessary to charge said vehicle?
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In the video they have a diesel generator. Still need fossil fuels. Not to mention 85% of all mined rare earth metals are processed in China. The EPA will not allow companies to process rare earth metals here in the US. The EU has similar regulations. That means we will have to rely on China for these alternative energy sources. Relying on China for our energy is a terrible idea.
If they don't come up with anything better than Teslas semi charger which can output a peak power of 750KW I think we're talking about a best case real world scenario of 90 minutes from 10 to 80%. I'm asumming that the battery is going to be at about 1 MWh. The charge time will of course increase if the cooling for the battery isn't good enough.
Last time I checked, lunch breaks are 30 minutes. In that time you'd maybe get to 60% battery. Again though, charging curve is a finiky thing.
Hey! It's me. Can I come see your truck?
The irony of those large CAT Diesel Generators charging these up in the promo vid. Maybe a diesel charging station comes with each one 🤓🧐
They are planning solar charging plants at each site, at least the site here in Australia is. The great thing about EVs is that you can get your "fuel" from multiple sources, whatever is available, whereas diesels, you have to use a specific fuel of a specific grade. If you can't get that fuel, you are stuffed, and given the volatility of the fossil fuel market of late, switching to electric makes a hell of a lot of sense. I own an EV, it costs me a few $ to charge up, and I get to drive past all those people queueing up a petrol stations, about to pay $100 or more to fill up their gas guzzlers.
@@ledsalesoz - What does your power company fuel it's generators with?
Truck sized small nuclear reactors would be very useful in this application.
Most mining operations are a 24/7 nonstop production whirlpool… when and how do you drop such an expensive asset to charge for say 10% or 2.4 hours in a 24 hour day..
Doesn't matter. BEV allows you to have options.
It's amazing how the entire industry, from OEM's to miners have been fooled into the "green"/ESG agenda.
I promise you that's not the case here. Charging a battery with a gasoline generator is still a good idea. There are major advantages.
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From italy 👋
If this thing has regen you could be looking at free refueling/recharging if you load the truck on the top of a hill
Can't find anywhere does it say, how long it a- goes for on a single charge and b- how long it takes to charge c- how long does a battery last and d- what is the cost of proper disposal of the main battery? I'd prefer steam!! Steam is sustainable, whereas batteries are not.
Some trucks were diesel electric long time ago,
This is the PERFECT machine for a small spent nuclear rod battery.
1. Away from civilization. No traffic and other road hazards to deal with.
2. Bigger enough to housing one with protection to the driver.
For anyone doubts if this would work, we've had nuclear subs for 70 years now.
THIRTY YEARS with NO FUELING. HUGE Savings.
no specs. *shocked face
It's a prototype, you don't release final specs until the specs are actually finalised...
Its a prototype... Duh
How big of a battery pack do you think it's going to have? 😂
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Of course no real information on the truck. Just a lot of nothing in this video. No real questions answered.
Compared too?
Its a prototype
CAT Ball Show, I work with high performance videos here in the State of Pará at the Carajás Iron Mine. If you need any audiovisual material, I'm at your disposal, in detail I made the video of the Mammoth Project for the ASSEMBLY of a CAT Off-Road together with SOTREC BRASIL.
It'd be nice to hear how much the charging stations would cost to set up especially the ones that do rapid charging probably over double the price of the truck and just wait till one of these garbage cans goes into spontaneous ignition it will take a trillion gallons of water to put the fire out and the operator will have about 10 seconds to get about a mile away before they become barbecued themselves
Caterpillar hopes to achieve 1 full rotation of the wheel by 2030 on a single charge!
lol they have 1, silly expensive just stick to ICE
Talking about sustainability and promoting something to steal the earths limited resources is kinda funny
Congrats for the engineering team, but please can you tune down the greenwashing a notch? "Budilding a more sustainable world"? By increasing the efficiency of the MINING industry? Come on...
Everything we own has metal in it, metal mining will need to continue, and the digging and transport could both be electrified, this is a big step towards electrifying the transport, so yes, this is great for the environment!
@@limiNZ using coal to charge it? oly nuclear would be cleaner than a good old fashioned diesel,,this silliness of electric vehicles cannot work without the source being clean !....and wind and solar cannot melt steel...ever..there are huge parts of our industries that solar and wind cannot work..
@@leewatkins1610 every single studies found out that even when charged with coal (which, realistically, no place on earth has a grid that 100% coal) it still end up polluting less during the lifetime. It takes longer ton "break even", but it still reach that point...
This has to be a joke right!!!!
Does it come with a pantograph attachment for recharging when working from a deep pit mine? Say something that can rise up from over the cab, which is protected by the bed until engaged? In other words, how do you run this thing without having to slow down to charge.
Still, well done Cat. The recharge this is the only real question, otherwise this will be great. So easy to maintain and to fix. So few moving parts.
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And to charge it? Just Run diesel powered generators .... hum....
What about disposing all the chemicals from that humungous battery? Take it so some landfill in India or Bangladesh and its ok.
Cool. How long does it take to charge and how much work can be completed on a single charge.
My thoughts exactly, I can haul all day in a 775 and only burn through 70 gallon of Dino juice, no charge time required.
I'm guessing a LONG time to charge using LOTS of electricity & not much work in return.
I think its a Hybrid, not fully electric. Probably uses diesel to generate electricity to power the batteries.
@@twillison8824 That's 700kg of CO2 per day, just from one truck. And you don't think that's a problem?
@@AntTurner Komatsu has done that for years. The Caterpillar 797 was and is the largest mechanical drive off highway truck. It's the most efficient and most reliable as well. Keep in mind, for every hour these trucks are down, the mine is LOOSING $!. Sooo, when they are charge...the industry has a long way to go before electric trucks. Just a fact of technology.
Fantastic ! 👍
CAT is awesome thank you!!!
I remember a fleet owner who asked the city for a permit to install chargers to convert his fleet to all electric and they laughed at him because his power requirements were more than the entire city combined.
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Really? Details? Sounds like a BS story
@@davidjones5280 That was months ago. I don't remember now. And why does that sound like a BS story? Just one charger can pull a megawatt. A small city would be like what? 5 megawatts? A fleet would need a dozen chargers.
@@erikkovacs3097 If we're talking about a significant number of high-rate chargers they won't be directly grid-connected. The model will be like Sydney's first electric bus depot at Leicchardt, which has a 1.25MW/2.5MWh grid-connected storage battery feeding 4 x 120kw DC chargers and 31 80kw AC chargers. It does have a strengthened grid connection but it's all well within grid capacity.
100 bull shit,
If caterpillar modified into solar absorb sunlight more wonderful
Excelent!!
BATTERY BETWEEN 5 AND 12 TONS !
Wauuu good
Mining company owner: Should we try the Cat electric trucks?
Vice President: No, some random jokers on UA-cam say it's woke. Or something, they can't explain it.
When 793 electric in Perú
Hi Jose! Your local Cat dealer can help you with your request. Could you send us a private message with your name, email, phone and location? We'll reply and connect you with your local dealer. You can also use our online dealer locator: www.cat.com/en_US/support/dealer-locator.html?. Thanks! - Elvitz
If the point of the video was to just get the initial idea of this out there then great but informative no wasted time clicking on this actually curious wanted some actual details on the EV dump truck
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How come no stats, not viable
No one has bought one yet or driven it at a real mine, they just made a prototype
Install solar panels where the paint is would also help to charge...
Like a tractor- van trailier painted with solar panel paint...?? Would have to invent that... Or solar panels...
These things are used in open pit mining perhaps the most destructive mining there is. Nothing green about this stuff.
Open pit mines exist with or without green vehicles, may as well make em green
Imagine its battery pack shorting out !!!😅😅😅
Curious to see the blast when the battery shorts 😂
A Microturbine+Battery series hybrid version would also be wise at this point - pure EV drivetrains for heavy duty vehicles will only make sense when we finally have solid state batteries - especially solid-state sodium batteries. And of course the sooner we have highly energy-dense, game-changing supercapacitors the better.
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This isnt true, lithium ion are good enough, they are just more expensive for the energy density you need, mining companies will save so much fuel from this they wont care
How many children does it take to build one of those batteries? How much money does china make off the sale of the battery?
Charged 100% by coal! Cool