No Charging Required For This World’s Largest Electric Vehicle

If you have already had an electric vehicle, it is a high chance that you have to take it, at least once a week, to a near charging station. Your usage will decide the charging frequency. But ultimately, it is not possible for you to skip charging and expect your vehicle to be charged by itself. But, this world’s largest electric vehicle might have just done that.

This largest electric vehicle in the world is known as a 110-ton dump truck called Elektro Dumper. It is currently in a Biel-based quarry, Switzerland. What the truck does is to carry marlstone and limestone to a cement factory at the sides of a mountain.

You might be questioning how on Earth the truck can operate such a task that demands a great amount of power without effective energy consumption. Let us give you some statistics. The Elektro Dumper has a weight of 45 tons. It goes down the mountain unloaded but when it goes back up, it carries with its 65 tons of raw materials. So its total net weight is 110 tons.

The truck’s regenerative braking system does all the work as it captures the needed energy for its next ride when the truck ascends downhill. The energy that the truck generates is more than what it needs when it climbs up. So that helps eliminate charging. Cool, right?

Elektro Dumper is a product from Kuhn Schweitz, a Switzerland-based construction equipment supplier firm. The truck is equipped with a huge 700 kWh battery so that battery will never run out. Compared with an average Tesla, that is 7 times of its capacity.

Below is a video of Elektro Dumper when it is in operation, take a look.

Every day, Elektro Dumper makes around 20 trips and produces around 200 kWh of energy. To deal with global warming and turn the world into a better place for our future generations, we need to have more EVs like Kuhn Schweitz’s Elektro Dumper.