![]() ![]() “It is easy to drive but you do need a little time to get used to its dimensions. The site is mined by the large coal producer SDS-Ugol, which is part of the Sibirsky Delovoj Soyuz holding company. Vashkevich is currently using this Belaz 75710 to move waste rock at an opencast coal mine in the Kuzbass region of Russia. “I feel proud to be driving such a giant,” said Andrej Vashkevich, a Belaz test driver and one of only two people to have driven the giant truck in real-world mining conditions. It also means that if one of the electric motors fails it can still be driven back to a repair centre under its own steam ‒ a handy feature when tractors capable of hauling a machine this large back to the depot are thin on the ground. Siemens engineers, who developed the drive system, unusually opted for all-wheel drive, to provide improved traction distributed over both axles. Fuel consumption is an estimated 1,300 litres per 100km, however the “haul truck”, as such a vehicle is known in the mining industry, can be run on just one of its engines when it is not loaded in order to save fuel. ![]()
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