The user experience of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in underground mining

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Author: Stuart Lister, Director of Marketing & Communications Whitepaper/Case Study
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Ramp trials of the MacLean BT3 battery electric boom truck in Canada - Switching out diesel fuel for battery electricity on mobile equipment in underground mining is as much of a user experience exercise as it is an engineering exercise.




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