Why the world's biggest electric vehicle NEVER needs charging

It's the very biggest of all the boys, it runs only on electric and it needs plugging in less often than a Nokia 3210. The E-Dumper yeets range anxiety off, well, a mountain range - here's how.
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[kiradotee]

2:21 transporting "those rocks" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well done 👏😂

[Mark-ktmh]

Just think about the amount of money that retrofit saves that operation.

[deanonesense]

I saw a dump truck with twin pantographs driving under twin catenary wires. I was hoping this video was going to be about that.

[mthom]

I love driving my EV downhill. It puts charge into my battery, and more range. No ICE vehicle does that.

[augustlandmesser]

Infinity Train, Australia, and Iron Ore Train, Sweden, are based on the same idea.

[mudscuffer]

The illustration at 2:24 is technically wrong. It only travels down the mountain side when fully loaded.

[macbere]

Fewer parts but the parts are harder to remove and can't be repaired. I guess they'll be treated like old fashioned planes and replace everything at regular intervals

[AFilipinoLife]

It does need charging…. Recharges every time it goes down hill

[netdoctor]

Genius. Hope the engineer got a good bump in pay for this.

[TheAtl]

So this is an unique situation, what when gravity can not be used, loading lower level, unloading higher level?

[no-damn-alias]

Why not use the battery to put back some of the energy back into the grid at night

[ppwater]

Wowowow I now know something that I don't need to know

[taminabratbrat]

The rock is basically going downhill via gravity

[SoftBreadSoft]

Because it doesn't work for most worksites so it sits there.
It can't produce enough braking or torque to be used on anything but the slightest graded quarries.

[BFArchn]

Imagine if they used gas for this...what a waste.

EVERYTHING needs to be electric ASAP

[Arcadian]

Then why not have two trucks tied together with a cable. At the top is a pulley wheel. Then neither truck needs an engine, and they can move more rocks. Or, why have any truck at all? Just have a rock slide down the mountain, or a conveyer belt.

[KnightShift]

That is one DC motor or1 AC induction turning as many DC generators wind turbines without wind as long as a cog works are connected or you can do a bike chainset "Free energy" multiplies 1 or * the consumption of the power used to turn them all

[johndii]

Stop putting rocks in and see what happens.