I have a massive respect for companies like Fortescue in which they tackle these problems early with really good engineering! And thank you Fully Charged Team for showing these because it makes me more optimistic!

As a mining truck driver of 28 years, I’d love to have drive of one of these. It would be quieter I’d imagine ( I wear hearing protection in diesel) and I’d not be breathing in diesel fumes which can happen even though I try to avoid.

Just the other day I said to someone who drives a big diesel truck that “these will be the last vehicles to be electrified”. I stand corrected.

Have been lucky enough to work for Fortescue >13 years. Incredible ambition within the business to go fully green. The workforce are really backing this vison, determined to demonstrate that a heavy polluting mining company can do Real Zero Carbon Emissions, not NET Zero of any offsets. Also not mentioned in the video is Fortescues aim to produce 15Mt of green hydrogen (likely green ammonia) by 2035. Will require many Terra Watts (TW) of green energy generation, coupled with a purpose built vertically integrated PEM electrolysers factory in Queensland. Exciting times ahead. asx: FMG

In Norway excavators in the city are electric now. The battery last half a day and its charged during lunch hour.

Diesel electric hauling trucks have been in mining for decades so electronics and electric motors have been thoroughly tested. So what has to be proven in the field are the batteries and the charging infrastructure

Andrew Forrest and Fortescue mining are leading the way to change the way we mine and at least reduce as much pollution as we can getting these minerals out if the ground. Should be applauded for committing so much to this and other projects. 🇦🇺👍

You could power an entire neighborhood with the amount of electricity this thing uses. Lmao

It is easy to make everything electric. You dont need to make electric trucks. We have an electric trains. You dont need electric buses there are troley buses. This goes on and on. Everithing is already there. We just refuse to change things. This truck is one of the final things. Loveli.

Toys grow up too. Imagine that when you were a kid you needed four battery cells to your truck. When you grow up you need hundred thousand cells.

These trucks are already electric the diesel is used to generate the power to drive the electric motors Considering most mines are 24/7 operations it will be interesting to see if the batteries can handle the regen used for braking

No easy feat by any means. Great to see the engineers take on such a massive undertaking. Bravo WAE!

I can't believe how many people find it necessary to post negative comments here. First they complained that the mining was done with diesel. Now they complain that it isn't. Guess some people are just angry at everything. Can't we just be nice instead?

I just love the combination of technical content, with Imogen getting her head around the issues, and the production skills of walks to camera that perfectly match the speech to arrival at destination. How many takes were required?! 👏👏

This proves that anything is possible with the right people behind it..

It would interesting to get an accountant to see how much of FMG actual bottom line goes into the project and how much is actually paid by Australian Tax payers in grants for green power transition given out by the various government bodies or Tax refunds . It would be nice if all those proposed solar panels were manufactured in Australia .

Another good review. Thank you. If memory serves correctly, I think Nikki from Transport Evolved walked around this facility several months ago. The big thing mentioned then was the incredible amount of regen braking during the downhill run, almost charges the battery on the way down.

Imagine a all electrical mining camp in space

If you're griping about this, you may have inhaled too much diesel exhaust..

Great visionary work being done by this young startup mining company. They were early adopters of autonomous mining trucks now they've gone electric too. Bravo.

Electric is nothing new in heavy machinery. Think our diesel spewing trains. It is actually an electric motor drive charged by a diesel ICE generator(alternator like on an ICE car) Battery tech is the game of the century and I have no doubt in mankinds ingenuity.

Amazing how a pair of (any ) glasses add a couple of hundred to Imogen’s IQ not to mention the beauty!

Have you looked at Edison motors in Canada yet? They are also working on a hybrid logging truck.

Great content, beautiful and talented presenter.

Thanks for the great video! Looking at it I thought of another extremely large mine that is already fully electrified and which could maybe constitute an interesting topic for fully charged: LKAB iron mine in Kiruna, Sweden.

Realy I like this biggest machines

The very low cost of solar energy these days make such projects infinitely feasible. In the longer term, bye, bye diesel.

Would have been nice to compare the EV with the Diesel version, like how long does it take to fill up the tank, run times and weight difference. Good episode though, Imogen smiling when putting on the glasses and jacket, priceless.

Awesome stuff! Thanks for the great journalism on electrification ❤

Fantastic to know that the mining industry is pushing forward with their electrification. It is no doubt a tough challenge, particularly the charging at each end point of the routes is a challenge! But I have no doubt these challenges will be overcome!

Did some early test and measurement of this prototype truck a while back. Great to see the progress made and it up and running now. It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out over the next few years. Getting rid of the diesel genset will make it a lot less fatiguing to operate too!

I think mining companies will do whatever is cheapest and most reliable. The environmental benefits are just a convenient pr piece. Either way it is a win.

Nice to hear, nice to see. However what will be the power consumption with PTO on?!

Wow that's awesome to see the trucks are going electric. Great episode!

Totally brilliant, thank you

Do they use litium or natrium?

From Barbie pink dress to Ewok welding suit; no-one can accuse Imogen of being sartorially typecast. I bet her house growing up had a massive dress-ups box . . . .

See? it can be done!

It would have been interesting to know more about the charging infrastructure. This thing will need a 3000+-kva charger to pump that power in that quickly. That suit she wore is an arc flash suit for actuating contactors--it'll make the difference between an open casket funeral and a nice urn next to a photo, should the worst happen. And contactors like that tend not to like many cycles. Never mind if the batteries all dumped that energy quickly--could take out the better part of a city block.

a company called JANUS in Australia is doing exactly the same thing by converting existing heavy diesel highway trucks and their batteries look just like that, very impressive what they have done. NO charging required with their system, batteries get swapped by a forklift driver in ONE MINUTE when the truck pulls into the station and they are on the road again, faster than fueling up!

Fascinating episode. Good for Fortescue.

Makes me wonder if Fortescue thought about battery swapping on those trucks? While they are working, a bank of batteries are charging up at a slightly slower rate than the fast charge, but the swap takes less time than charging would.

Fairly sure any negative comments are diesel truck manufacturing workers :) This things awesome, nothing cooler than a bunch of nerds playing with big toys.

I have dought on this because battery is very heavy and low capacity this will just run may an hour or more maybe a electric Diesel way untill new and better battery technology is invented

Can't wait to see your test drive

Surely you'd make swapable battery packs, and use the packs as the grid storage. Lacked a little detail - how many volts was it? How long does it last? Are the trucks brand new or can these be swapped to existing?

Diesel over electric seems like a plausible solution.

Superb !! Keep up the content !!

Love this stuff 👍

I want to see the massive connectors on this thing to charge it! Surely not CCS! 😂

Camera and cut seems a bit off this time. Do you have new staff? 😅

Woow .. so between 10 to 20x less energy than a proper truck. Woow. Fyi cat 797 3790l and cat 797b 6810l that is roughly eq to 11mwh and 20mwh @30% eff. As someone was saying "future my arse!". It is not impossible, just "genius"! Impressive! Bravo! Have you guys not heard of napkins, coasters and such to do simple multiplications and see what grade of "genius" some of the ideas are before implementing them?

Thanks, that was one of the best videos you've done in terms of an interesting topic.

The greater the variety of electrics the better, keeps people busy, and out of trouble doing something constructive !

" driving through a meter deep pot hole" nice to know the truck can just about cope with any uk B road then😅😅

Novel idea. Where is your charger? Cuts down on on load capacity. Many charging stations are using clean hydrogen. There are fleets of Hydrogen trucks already in Queensland.

Trying to determine if Imogen actually does look like that one british actress ive seen in all the movies or if I just think that because they both have british accents 🤷‍♂️

The whole tyhing with going electric is that we do not want every body swapping at once, we need a steady update to the grid and charging options as more people go electric. This is fantastic to see that even the huge mining trucks are starting to move to battery technology, that is also improving all the time, whereas ICE has reached it's end of refinement. The day will be here where fuel prices for ICE will keep increasing whereas electricity will become cheaper as more wind and solar come online, along with the battery storage.

It would have been great if there was a EV vs Diesel truck side by side comparison. Example, how long would a 1.4mwh charge last in "normal" use in the mine. How much battery degrades during fast charging (30 min charging is fast charging). How much operational time is lost per vehicle while waiting to charge as compared to diesel trucks. Carrying capacity, speed, reliability, temperature ,etc.

Great presentation!

Amazing, Bat Trees store electricity. I thought one used batteries. (bat ter rees)

What an amazing insight. Ironically this is on my doorstep and I didn't know about it. As I am leaving my role in the RAF after 15 years I am going to see what jobs they have on offer.

A very informative and well presented presentation. Young lady the Highlander.😊

I just adore Imogen's delivery style. She has all the style and Grace of Judith Hann, one of Tomorrow's Worlds longest serving and most accomplished presenters.

Twiggy is just as greedy as all the other mining magnates but his drive for green steel and mining is not just a contrived PR stunt. He realises the economics of hinging your entire business on fossil fuels is a guaranteed loss long term. You install 500Mw of solar power and the price of that energy is fixed for the life of the system, which will last 20 years with minimal maintenance, and solar is dirt cheap.

The ev trucks can offset the emissions from twiggy's $98m private jet

Interesting, they are not going for Hydrogen but electric and batteries. And other Australian mining companies do the same. In the end it comes down to energy efficiency and simplicity. And better efficiency means lower cost.

It'll save them a fortune on Diesel and engine maintenance.

This is incredible

Thanks Imogen 😉

This is not true! 😔 30 minutes to take a charge. Nit fully charged from max depth of Dis charge. DOD. There using supercap to absorb and charge battery,by changing cells from parallel topology to series. Tesla uses the same trick. Voltage goes from 200 operating vilts to 400 to charge. Cap pics up high voltage and convert to lower voltage with higher current. This gives the impression of full charge. 😊 I challenge this company to a peer study. 😊

I thought a mining truck had already been created that fully recharged on its way back down into the mine.

This is the technology that will drive the new companies that replace the current earthmoving equipment companies such as John Deere, Caterpillar Tractor, Hoyt-Clagwell Etc. None of these companies have made any serious moves into electrification of their entire fleets. They will loose and disappear just as passenger shipping and rail disappeared when aviation came into the norm.

I guess the cells come from China or I'm wrong

This truck needs a 3 Megawatt charger to charge in 30 minutes. I'm guessing they will be thin on the ground.

Green tech improves itself. The more we adopt green generation and electrification, the greener it gets to build green generation and electrification.

Surely a mining truck is totally different to a racing car? One needs to keep going for 10-15 hours per day, where every minute of downtime costs a lot of money, whereas a racing car needs to provide lots of power for a pretty short time. Dave Rawlins didn't sound very convincing. He didn't even sound like he convinced himself. I can imagine regenerative charging going down into the mine pit would return some energy, but they still won't keep going for long. Still, it's a start. At least they are trying.

1.4 MWh seems a bit small, that would be about 5% the weight of the vehicle.

I worked in the outback of W.A. for years and the damage done to the land stolen from a peaceful original people is a travesty.

Of course I’ve heard of them I install them I am an industrial electrician. I know them inside and out. I know exactly what it takes to build them and I have been doing it so long now I see the old panels failing and the problems diagnosing and replacing. Wind farms are even worse than solar. The carbon free is possible but not by solar or wind. Firstly the energy used to build these solar panels and wind turbines and the carbon footprint are massive and would never be recovered Solar plants have a life of 20 years and by then you have to have replaced almost every panel to keep them going 10 years life out of a wind turbine blade and they are 100 metres long. The difference between you and me Antonio is not only donI know renewables exist I know the reality of building maintaining and eventually disassembling them. It’s unsustainable. I know it I live it I breathe it every day. You may not realise but the only want to generate the power this world needs “sustainably” is by nuclear power The renewables apart from hydro (there is no hydro that will ever power anything n the Pilbara mate there IS no water and no mountains over here. You are a very positive guy and unfortunately you have no clue about the Pilbara or how power is generated here or how much energy it will take to build power stations of solar power that can power a haul truck Do the math. Those trucks burn over 2000 litres per 12 hour shift and the energy expended is phenomenal. You can’t do the math because you have no clue about what you are talking. You want it to be real but the numbers will never add up in the Pilbara. It’s too remote and too hot (yes heat causes massive voltage drop in solar panels and shortens their lifespan) It’s a publicity stunt and until nuclear gets back in the radar there will be no carbon footprint free power in the Pilbara

Negatives likely coming from oil industry mouth pieces.

And this technology might extend to producing a continuous supply of nacent Hydrogen for reducing Iron Ore, or some other metal ores too.

It would take 30+ windmills to recharge this truck once.

Why don't use use small nuclear generator or hydrogen as a fuel it's pretty hard to recycle the battery paks

@EdisonMotors is tackling the heavy trucking side of this.

Please explain how the battery integrates with the rest of the drive system. I presume the battery powers hydraulic motors so pumps hydraulic fluid rather than direct drive to electric motors on the axles. It is interesting to hear about another battery installation but as a mechanical engineer I want to also know about the whole system. Thanks.

It's a bit hard to see this as a feel good story when you consider the devistating effect open-cast mining has on the environment - especially in WA.

This is bloody great

It a shame to another great British company sold to a foreign company.

Congressman Ralph Norman needs to be shown this truck cause he doesn't believe battery electric dump trucks exist.

Electrification of trains with regen would definitely be the go, I’ve seen them in the Pilbara makes sense

I very much appreciate Imogen's enthusiasm for PPE

When he said about testing for a metre deep pothole, my first thought was "you could do that testing on Surrey roads...."

Many F1 teams are based in the UK and even the overseas-based teams rely upon British component suppliers. So there are many highly-talented British engineers supporting the sport. It makes you think what these people could achieve if they weren't wasting their time and talent on this pointless soap-opera of a sport.

They use iron ore to make steeeeeel??????

BATTERY is NOT THE ANSWER for everything, TOOOOOO HEAVY !!! WHY DON'T THEY use BIO-FUEL intaed ??!!

Another great video!

Your video team's passports must be swamped with Visa stamps the Highlander p. S kindness is always free.😊

Thanks

They're not the only ones trying to make a viable BEV haul truck nothing yet.. decarbonize mining.. let me get this straight their going to use diesel equipment in a high strip ratio mine plus 50% production loses to make BEV haul truck which the gentleman wanted to say is going to be less productive and it's decarbonization 🤨 right..