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Some entrepreneurs in Adelaide recently developed a fully electric utility vehicle for use in agribusiness and mining. It's based on a 79 series LandCruiser (which are still made brand new) and it has 350km of range. I saw some people scoff at that, but mining and agribusiness have the ability to introduce infrastructure, and these vehicles are work vehicles for use on site. Well managed vehicle and battery stocks could see these running 24/7 if need be. Have some solar on site or a grid hookup and you'd never have to worry about fuel logistics for the light vehicle section of your fleet.

https://thedriven.io/2019/10/24/first-electric-ute-engineere...



Electric vehicles also come with an enormous low speed torque simply because of the nature of electric engines.


This is why mining haul trucks use them for brakes.




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