Global mining and metals company Fortescue is driving the technology behind massive, all electric heavy equipment solutions with an all-new 6 MW DC fast charger that can charge this massive haul truck’s 1,900 kWh battery in less than thirty minutes. (!)
Jointly developed by Fortescue and heavy equipment giants Liebherr, the 6 MW (6000 kW) DC fast charger is twice as fast as the 3 MW prototype shown last year during CES, but was just a small part of the massive $4 billion electric equipment deal the two companies signed at MINEexpo this past week. That money will eventually pay for a total of 475 zero emission Liebherr machines, with a breakdown of 360 autonomous battery-electric trucks, 55 electric excavators, and 60 battery-powered loaders.
The big news, though, has to be that game-changing 6MW charger.
“Fortescue has developed the stationary fast…
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