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Nov 28, 2014

WORLD BIGGEST TRUCK * Russia: Belaz's

* Siberia - World’s biggest dump truck goes electric

(Photo: BelAZ Trucks: A massive vehicle that can haul loads weighing more than 500 metric tons—the equivalent of 350 VW Golfs—just hit the work site in Siberia, claiming the title of the world’s largest dump truck) 
Siberia,Russia -IEEE Spectrum, by Katherine Tweed -24 Nov 2014: -- But Belaz's one truck, it has another claim that makes it even more impressive: an electric drive motor. Electric-powered vehicles have been around to do heavy lifting in mines for years, but those trucks, known as trolley trucks, received their electricity from overhead power lines... The Belarusian truck manufacturer BelAZ wanted the efficiency of the trolley trucks, but in a free-moving behemoth suitable for open pit mining... BelAZ turned to Siemens to develop a truck in less than two years that could carry enormous loads at a lower cost per ton than previous models and reach speeds of up to 64 kilometers per hour when not carrying any load...

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