Call that an electric truck? THIS is an electric truck...

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Prius? We don' need no steenkeeng Prius!

This video of a 300-tonne diesel-electric Euclid-Hitachi dumper with 'trolley assist' was sent in by BLB regular Dave Webster, who says:

Going uphill the truck hooks into the main grid and gets a boost uphill and coming down it hooks into the grid and through regen braking puts electricity back into the grid. Check the tone of the turbos when the grid kicks in.

Here's the spec sheet of the 255-tonne payload Euclid-Hitachi EH4500 hauler, which has a 2,700hp Cummins or Detroit Diesel engine and Siemens/Euclid AC electric drive - with trolley assist the traction power can be more or less doubled, increasing the speed uphill by as much as 80%. Incidentally, Hitachi has formally dropped the Euclid name, although it still appears in descriptions of components. Now click through here for a roll-out shot of the R210 gas-turbine powered dump truck....

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Here's a shot of the Euclid gas-turbine  R 210 leaving the factory....again from Dave Webster. 

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Peter Lynch

If that diesel and AC electric setup can work in a coal mine, would it not be suitable for urban vehicles such as buses and garbage trucks?

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