The biggest electric car in the world runs in the Swiss Alps

24.07.2019

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The world's largest electric car today – running solely on electric in the Alpine career of the 60-ton mining truck e-Dumper built by a local company Kuhn Schweiz AG.

Length dump truck, built on the basis of conventional diesel Komatsu HP605 is of 9.34 m, a width of 4.24 m and a height of 4.39 m and with a raised body – of 8.78 m. gross vehicle weight is 111 t, Respectively, the largest and heaviest in the world of the electric car and the big battery – Li-ion battery with a capacity of 600 kWh with a weight of 4.5 tons, consisting of 1440 Nickel-manganese-cobalt cells, has put the Chinese firm Shenzen Westart.

Electroceramic does 20 times a day flight from the mountain ridge Sacral in the valley to a cement plant near the city of Biel.
In June of this year at the world's largest electric car has been a champion of the Formula E season 2017 Brazilian racing driver Lucas di Grassi, however, is not behind the wheel, and next to the driver as a passenger. Electroceramic was fully loaded with rock. According to di Grassi: "We went to charged to 90% battery and was driving on a steep slope upward. In the end the way the battery is discharged to 80%. But on the way back managed to recover 8%, and the total volume at the end of the trip amounted to 88%". The world's largest electrochemical e-Dumper with zero emission of CO₂ decreases by 130 tonnes a year, saving 50 tonnes of diesel fuel a year.

PS According to the calculations of an effective recovery system had to charge the battery even in excess, but judging by the test di Grassi this is still not happening, although the degree of recovery is still quite large.