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"Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals grabbed some headlines this week with news
that it would invest $4 billion for hundreds of giant electric haul trucks,
electric dozers and electric excavators. But what really caught many people’s
attention was its revelation that it has developed an EV fast charger with a
rated capacity of 6 megawatts (MW).
The 6 MW charger is twice as big as the 3 MW prototype that was built to charge
the Roadrunner, the first iteration of its battery electric haul trucks at its
giant iron ore mines, and significantly bigger than any other truck charger to
date.
The 6 MW chargers will be used to charge the huge 1.9 megawatt hour batteries
that drive the power systems for the massive 240 tonne battery electric haul
trucks. It says it will be able to do that in just half an hour.
“Fortescue has developed the stationary fast charging solution to support the
autonomous battery-electric truck,” the company said this week. “Equipped with
robotic connection options, the charger can provide up to 6 MW of power and
charge the current battery-electric T 264 in 30 minutes.”
And there were not many more details than that, and Fortescue declined to
comment further. The company’s newly released Climate Transition Report
reveals only that it expects the new 6 MW chargers to be rolled out in 2026.
For comparison, the biggest chargers rolled out to date have been ABB’s
megawatt charger, which it says has the potential to ramp up to charging
capacities of up to 3.75 megawatts at 3,000 amps."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
