The eDumper’s
tires alone are
six feet tall.W
HO SAID ELECTRIC
vehicles can’t do
hard labor? Meet
Elektro Dumper,
the biggest wheeled
EV on the planet.
eMining AG, a
Swiss manufacturer of smart
construction equipment, mod-
ified a standard Komatsu HD
605-7 truck, an off-highway vehi-
cle used in quarries and mines,
to operate entirely with electric
energy. Plus, the thing recharges
itself using rocks.At 30 feet long, 14 feet wide,
and 14 feet tall, the “eDumper”
isn’t an obvious candidate for elec-
trification. But eMining AG didn’t
just paint the stock dump truck
green. The company also added
a 600 kilowatt-hour battery pack
to the vehicle—enough to power
six long-range Tesla Model S cars.
Those lithium batteries tack on
another 9,000 pounds.
Here’s how it works: The
eDumper weighs 45 tons and
ascends a hill at, say, a 13 percent
grade. On the way back down, it’s COURTESYEMININGAG24 December 2019
The World’s
Largest
Wheeled
Electric
Vehicle Is a
Dump Truck
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