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Biggest Truck On Earth Has Electric All-Wheel Drive: BELAZ 75710

You might think that electric cars are for girls, like it happened back in the day they were invented and females preferred them because of simplicity and less things to break. But you’d be wrong, because the manliest machine on the planet has an all-wheel electric drive system. Meet the GVW BELAZ-75710 mining dump truck.
BELAZ-75710 mining truck 1 photo
Photo: GVW BELAZ
Just reading that out loud with a slightly Russian accent makes you manlier already, after which you discover some of the technical specifications of the Belorussian truck and you found yourself wearing a thick beard, manly chest hair and a viking hat, or maybe a ushanka...

The BELAZ-75710 has been introduced last year and in case you haven’t heard of it, the mammoth earth mover is the largest of its kind, measuring 20,6 meters in length, 9.8 meters in width and standing 8.1 meters tall. The tipper bed is so huge you can fill it with water and take a swim in it, preferably at 2 degrees C after a bottle of vodka.

When the tipper is empty, the truck weighs 810 tons on top of which you could put up to a maximum of 450 tons of earth or other things to be moved around.

Impressive drivetrain

How do you move this thing without over-complicating things? Fit each wheel with a massive electric motor, each boasting 1,200 kW (1,632 hp), summing up to 4,800 kW (6,526 hp).

Batteries for this would have been ginormous and take a century to recharge, reason why all the electricity is provided by two V16 diesel engines (well, basically generators), each making 1,715 kW (2,332 hp) and 9,313 Nm (6,869 lb-ft) of torque.

This basically makes the BELAZ -75710 into the world’s biggest electric-drive machine. It can carry 25 percent more than any other mine truck and can reach a top speed of 40 mph (64 km/h) when empty. And that will be achieved on mostly every terrain, because the electric all-wheel drive allows for an advanced traction control that will keep wheel spin to a minimum even on mud.

The first unit that exited the production line recently begun operating at a Siberian mine in the Kuzbass region in Russia. We’ve attached a spec sheet bellow and you can also check the video for more info.

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 Download: GVW BELAZ - 75710 specs (PDF)

 

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