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"Swedish mining company LKAB has quietly begun revolutionising underground
mining, operating two battery electric Scania heavy tippers 1,250-metres
underground.
The two semi-trailer electric trucks have been customised specifically for
LKAB, each boasting a payload capacity of just over 70 tonnes and a battery
energy volume of 624 kilowatt-hours (kWh).
It is not the first Scania electric truck LKAB has been using, following the
delivery of a Scania 25P XT electric heavy tipper, which has been in use in
daily operation since 2022.
But unlike the Scania 25P XT, which is used for surface transport at the
Malmberget iron ore mine in Sweden, the two semi-trailer tipper trucks are
operating in underground production environments, hauling ore from chutes to
crushers.
“The environment is dark, but it’s ideal for electric vehicles,” said Pär
Sundqvist, an electrification engineer at LKAB.
“We have good roads and a constant temperature of around 12 to 15 degrees
Celsius, which is perfect for batteries.”
And according to Peter Gustavsson, project manager for electrification of
mobile machines at LKAB, the two 120-tonne battery electric trucks are believed
to be the world’s largest and heaviest underground mining trucks."
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