The first 100% electric trucks intended for use in internal transport, in mines in the country and in Indonesia, are being tested by OK. The announcement of the novelty was made by the company last Thursday, 18. This project's main objective is to be ever closer to zero carbon dioxide emissions, in accordance with the company's goals.
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In the ad, we can see that two vehicles were purchased, whose load capacity would be 72 tons each one from Chinese manufacturer XCMG Construction Machinery, a subsidiary company of Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group. The first operations carried out have already shown a reduction in costs compared to the company's diesel-powered vehicles.
In Indonesia, in a small mining town called Sorowako, these tests with the electric truck in nickel transport began about two weeks ago, remembering that this was the first vehicle received by mining company. This week, Brazil should receive the second vehicle, which will be transporting iron ore at the Água Limpa mine, in Minas Gerais.
This operation being carried out by Vale, which claims to be the first company in the world to use this category of electric trucks among all mining companies, is part of a program called PowerShift, where the objective is to replace all fossil fuels with fuels from sources clean.
The giant diesel trucks that operate in the company's mines represent around 9% of total level 1 and 2 emissions worldwide, according to information from Vale itself.
The mining company has made a lot of effort to meet the goals of the strategies that were made, in which the objective is to zero direct and indirect net emissions by the year 2050. One of them is the electrification of equipment used in operations. For this to be possible, the investment estimate is around 4 to 6 billion dollars.
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