Australian mining big Fortescue’s prototype haul truck powered by hydrogen, Europa, developed with German-Swiss producer Liebherr, efficiently travelled 1,100km from Perth to the Pilbara on Tuesday (13 August).
Europa, a T 264 Liebherr haul truck, has a 1.6 megawatt-hour battery developed internally by Fortescue WAE, and 500kW of gasoline cells. The prototype can maintain greater than 380kg of liquid hydrogen.
Over the approaching months, Europa will endure on-site testing on the Christmas Creek iron ore mine. Suggestions shall be used to form the corporate’s future zero-emission haul truck fleet.
Fortescue Metals CEO Dino Otranto mentioned: “Europa integrates for the primary time a Fortescue Zero battery right into a Liebherr haul truck, marking an enormous milestone in our partnership with Liebherr.”
As soon as operational on the website, Europa shall be fuelled with liquid hydrogen from Fortescue’s Inexperienced Vitality Hub at Christmas Creek, which features a gaseous and liquid hydrogen plant.
Oliver Weiss, government vice-president of R&D, engineering and manufacturing Liebherr-Mining Tools SAS, mentioned: “Liebherr and Fortescue are aligned within the perception that hydrogen and hydrogen carriers, equivalent to ammonia, will play an necessary position in supporting the mine decarbonisation extra to electrification.”
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Since their announcement in 2022, Liebherr and Fortescue have collaborated to create zero-emission haul vans. Lately, the businesses revealed their plans to develop and confirm a totally built-in autonomous haulage resolution.
“To decarbonise mining, you want a system resolution, so this new working system, which integrates a Fleet Administration System and power administration, shall be a recreation changer for us in decreasing our carbon emissions,” Otranto added.
In accordance with the corporate, Fortescue’s development on this resolution brings the corporate nearer to introducing autonomous haul vans with zero emissions to its iron ore operations within the Pilbara. This progress aligns with Fortescue’s purpose of reaching full terrestrial emission elimination (scope 1 and a couple of) throughout Australian iron ore operations by 2030.