earthman34 t1_j57pz0n wrote on January 20, 2023 at 11:56 PM

Reply to comment by pinkfootthegoose in The race to make diesel engines run on hydrogen by FDuquesne

Only in your imagination. There's no infrastructure to support large electric vehicles, and no economic incentive to buy them. Like a lot of people, you see one article about some prototype somebody built, and you assume a million cash-strapped construction companies running on narrow margins are suddenly borrowing billions of dollars to buy fleets of vehicles that don't exist that have no support infrastructure.

pinkfootthegoose t1_j57xsc7 wrote on January 21, 2023 at 12:53 AM

hey dummy. battery powered mining equipment has already made inroad for underground work. (though no very large yet) most indoor PITs are already electrical in nature and it's not a huge leap for manufactures to move onto mining and construction.

If you even bothered to do a bit of searching you will see that several companies are already moving forward in electrically powered mining equipment. China is especially prominent in this field.