{"id":29292,"date":"2019-08-27T15:10:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29292"},"modified":"2019-08-28T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T11:14:11","slug":"electric-dump-truck-produces-more-energy-than-it-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29292","title":{"rendered":"Electric Dump Truck Produces More Energy Than It Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/08\/22\/electric-dump-truck-produces-more-energy-than-it-uses\/\">Electric vehicles are<\/a> everywhere now. It\u2019s more than just Leafs, Teslas, and a wide variety of electric bikes. It\u2019s also trains, busses, and in this case, gigantic dump trucks. This truck in particular is being put to work at a mine in Switzerland, and as a consequence of having an electric drivetrain is actually able to produce more power than it consumes. (Google Translate from Portugese)<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t some impossible perpetual motion machine, either. The dump truck drives up a mountain with no load, and carries double the weight back down the mountain after getting loaded up with lime and marl to deliver to a cement plant. Since electric vehicles can recover energy through regenerative braking, rather than wasting that energy as heat in a traditional braking system, the extra weight on the way down actually delivers more energy to the batteries than the truck used on the way up the mountain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh yes, very clever. <\/p>\n<p>What are you going to do when you've carried all of the mountain's top down?<\/p>\n<p>Where's your fancy perpetual motion dump trunk then, smarty pants?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicles are everywhere now. It\u2019s more than just Leafs, Teslas, and a wide variety of electric bikes. It\u2019s also trains, busses, and in this case, gigantic dump trucks. This truck in particular is being put to work at a mine in Switzerland, and as a consequence of having an electric drivetrain is actually able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29294,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29292\/revisions\/29294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}