How can we effectively and efficiently electrify mining haul truck operations?
Mining has a crucial role in achieving mass electrification, but amidst a need to continuously improve productivity, the industry also faces significant pressure to decarbonise its operations.
For many miners, haul truck operations are essential to their carbon emissions. Ensuring that the proper infrastructure is in place to enable mines to run cleanly and cost-effectively is a significant challenge.
In the long-term, electrified equipment that utilises the most innovative technologies can be lighter, smaller, and simpler to operate and have lower maintenance and total cost of ownership throughout their lifecycle than their internal combustion counterparts. However, current ‘off the shelf’ batteries cannot provide the continuous immense levels of power required in the hot and humid underground conditions that mining trucks operate in, either from a performance or safety perspective. Mining trucks also rarely ‘sit still’ and the standard lithium-ion batteries, used in most passenger EV vehicles, take a prohibitively long time to charge fully.
How XNO® can drive the electrification of haul truck operations
Echion’s novel niobium-based XNO® anode material can uniquely unlock the requirements needed for the mass electrification of mining haul truck operations.
XNO® has the potential to remove many of the limitations of current battery technologies; lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries equipped with XNO® anode materials can significantly and simultaneously improve charge time, cycle life, energy density and safety.
Benefits include:
Safe and full super-fast charging in two to ten minutes, significantly increasing vehicle up time.
Lifecycle of more than 10,000 cycles, helping to conserve critical resources and reduce costs.
Market leading safety capabilities and maintenance of peak performance, even in extreme heat and high humidity.
Up to 180% of the energy density of alternative fast-charging battery chemistries, such as lithium-titanate (LTO).
Safe handling of high-power charge delivered using a modular Trolley Assist system, maximising dynamic charging, and resulting in less or no reliance on stationary charging.
A carbon footprint 2.5 times lower¹ than lithium titanate oxide (LTO) at cell level.
Available at scale through Echion’s partnership with CBMM, the world’s leading supplier of niobium.
XNO® is a proven chemistry, specifically engineered for use in heavy-duty sectors like mining. Thanks to our status as the world’s leading supplier of niobium-based anode materials, we have an established network of partner cell manufacturers across the world that we work with to engineer market leading, bespoke batteries that can effectively and efficiently electrify mining haul truck operations.
Learn more about Echion’s XNO® battery materials and how we can support you to electrify mining haul truck operations.
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