Video Description
This is a 300-tonne Euclid AC electric
drive dumper with trolley assist. Going
uphill the truck hooks into the main
grid and gets a boost; coming down, it
hooks into the grid and through
regenerative braking puts electricity
back into the grid. Source:
Roadtransport.com
Euclid Truck
The Euclid Company of Ohio was a company
specialized in heavy equipment for
earthmoving, namely dump trucks and
wheel tractor-scrapers, that operated
from the United States of America from
the 1920s to the 1950s, then it was
purchased and converted into a section
of General Motors and later on by
Hitachi, Ltd. Now Euclid is a section of
Volvo. Source: Wikipedia:
Euclid Trucks.
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