{"id":181407,"date":"2024-01-25T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/liebherr-converted-this-massive-mining-excavator-to-electric-power"},"modified":"2024-01-25T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T04:28:10","slug":"liebherr-converted-this-massive-mining-excavator-to-electric-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/liebherr-converted-this-massive-mining-excavator-to-electric-power","title":{"rendered":"Liebherr converted this massive mining excavator to electric power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/liebherr-converted-this-massive-mining-excavator-to-electric-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in the company\u2019s 40-year history, Liebherr have converted one of their R 9,400 excavators from a conventional diesel to an electric powertrain.<\/p>\n<p>The re-powered mining machine was commissioned at Fortescue\u2019s Christmas Creek <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/?s=mining\">mine<\/a> site in Western Australia \u2013 but what\u2019s more significant is that the conversion was done <em>during<\/em> the standard service life of the machine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe modular design of Liebherr equipment makes it possible to repower existing diesel excavators to new zero emission configurations, such as electric powertrains,\u201d explains Oliver Weiss, Executive Vice President of R&amp;D, Engineering, and Manufacturing for <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/01\/13\/this-240t-electric-mining-haul-truck-can-charge-in-30-minutes\/\">Liebherr Mining<\/a>. \u201cThis means that the diesel equipment customers buy today is also future-proofed for many years to come. The fact that we can ease the transition from traditional to decarbonized mining fleets for our customers is one of the key strategies of the Liebherr Zero Emission Mining Program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in the company\u2019s 40-year history, Liebherr have converted one of their R 9,400 excavators from a conventional diesel to an electric powertrain. The re-powered mining machine was commissioned at Fortescue\u2019s Christmas Creek mine site in Western Australia \u2013 but what\u2019s more significant is that the conversion was done during the standard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}