The world's largest hydrogen-powered truck is being developed in collaboration with three The world's largest truck equipped with a hydrogen engine, three international companies are working together international companies are working together. The British mining TNC Anglo American is puzzled by the modernization of its Komatsu quarry truck lineup. In doing so, the French energy TNC ENGIE, a French energy company that supplies hydrogen technology, is helping. technology, and the British company Williams, which deals with British company Williams, which deals with battery systems.
According to the developers, the car will be equipped with a Li-ion battery with a capacity of over 1000 kW⋅h, which will make it it will be competitive with diesel analogs. In addition, the dump truck is planned to be a hybrid model, capable of running on either a choice of battery or hydrogen cell. Anglo's director of technical affairs American" T. O'Neil said that one of the main challenges that will be addressed by the release of the hydrogen truck is to reduce CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030.
Experts also talk about cheaper service of the new machines. In addition, hydrogen electric trucks are less noisy than diesel ones. The weight of the developed truck will exceed the record-breaking 45 tons of "eDumper" and will be about 290 tons.
The start of production of hydrogen dump trucks is scheduled for 2020, the testing of vehicles will take place in South Africa.
Source: Business Insider
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