1158 electric, however the implementation of electrically powered mining equipment is heavily dependent on OEMs and their willingness to develop and to provide electric powertrains for their products. The economic benefits as well as the resulting environmental benefits would be highly welcomed and would perfectly meet the European Union’s efforts for Decarbonisation. European Union’s Industrial Emission Directive took up metal ore mining and the associated BREF (best practice reference) document will give guidance to make use of possibilities for electrification of mining equipment, Right now, there are no electrically powered products from the dominant OEMs for open pit mobile mining equipment in the size and above of VA Erzberg’s mine in Europe available, which could operate fully electric at the Erzberg open pit mine. Even the well-elaborated concept of the above described battery equipped trolley truck is not yet adopted by OEMs of 100 t payload trucks. Following the mining related news, several Chinese manufacturers of open pit mobile mining equipment already have started to explore the advantages of electrical powertrains equipped with batteries. This might soon change the market position of mobile mining equipment suppliers in the western hemisphere. REFERENCES Chian, T. Y., Wei, W. L. J., Ze, E. L. M., Ren, L. Z., Ping, Y. E., Abu Bakar, N. Z., Faizal, M. and Sivakumar, S., (2019). A Review on Recent Progress of Batteries for Electric Vehicles. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research ISSN 0973-4562 Volume 14, Number 24 (2019) pp. 4441-4461 © Research India Publications. http://www.ripublication.com. Schimek, P., Richthammer, B., Kogelbauer, A. (2023): Sustainable electrified haulage: The world´s longest consecutive trolley line and the only trolley line in the 100t class. 26th World Mining Congress (WMC 2023). 3750-3759.
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