Rio Tinto, BHP to collaborate on electric haul truck trials in Pilbara

High Australian miners Rio Tinto and BHP Community will work together for making an are trying out mammoth battery-operated electrical haul truck skills within the Pilbara space of Western Australia, Rio Tinto talked about on Monday.

Rio and BHP, which are focusing on to impress salvage zero operational greenhouse fuel emissions by 2050, will work with producers Caterpillar and Komatsu to conduct self reliant trials of their battery-electrical haul automobiles, Rio talked about in a assertion.

The pains will be undertaken to evaluate performance and productivity within the Pilbara environment and signify the first stage of electrical haul truck making an are trying out at BHP and Rio’s Pilbara operations.

Two Cat 793 haul automobiles will be trialled from the second half of of 2024, and two Komatsu 930 haul automobiles will be tested from 2026 below the collaboration.

“As we work to repower our Pilbara operations with renewable energy, collaborations adore this circulation us nearer to solving the shared enlighten of affairs of decarbonising our operations, and assembly our salvage zero commitments,” Rio Tinto Iron Ore Chief Govt Simon Trott talked about.