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CTOnews.com, November 23 (Xinhua)-- Caterpillar unveiled its new prototype of an electric mining truck, the 793Electric, and announced plans to build other electric and self-driving vehicles for industrial use.

Caterpillar, which has long been a leader in the heavy vehicle industry, now plans to try to expand its lead by providing new electric products for heavy industry. The first product they show today is an all-electric mining truck, and then the company will have many other all-electric machines, charging products, and investment in self-driving car technology.

Caterpillar showed off its prototype 793 electric truck at the Taskon proving ground in Arizona, testing scenarios used in the mine, where the bed was filled with soil from the quarry and the truck transported the soil to a nearby storage area. finally unload the goods like other heavy trucks. The advantages of electric trucks are lower noise and maintenance costs, and less vehicle emissions, which is good for protecting the environment.

Caterpillar highlighted in its speech that it would develop all-electric versions of its trucks, hydraulic shovels, drilling rigs, wheel loaders and bulldozers in the next few years. Caterpillar hopes to provide many products to enable their electric cars to run on large industrial venues.

CTOnews.com has learned that Caterpillar already provides large diesel generators for many large industrial sites, but the company is now working to provide renewable energy options. Caterpillar outlined that its Tuscombe test facility has been partially powered by solar energy, and the company hopes to expand its renewable energy generation through more solar (2 MW), wind (3 MW), battery storage systems (18 MW) and even hydrogen solutions.

Caterpillar believes that the mines and other industrial sectors of the future will be very different from the mines created and managed today. The simulated mines they show highlight the possibility of making mining and resource extraction a cleaner and more sustainable process. It is hoped that through the company's investment in electric cars and other more sustainable technologies, they can have a positive impact on the industries it supplies.

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