{"id":340828,"date":"2025-12-08T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/bhp-and-rio-tinto-begin-battery-electric-haul-truck-trials-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:42:22","slug":"bhp-and-rio-tinto-begin-battery-electric-haul-truck-trials-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/bhp-and-rio-tinto-begin-battery-electric-haul-truck-trials-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"BHP and Rio Tinto begin battery-electric haul truck trials in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/bhp-and-rio-tinto-begin-battery-electric-haul-truck-trials-in-australia.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"Caterpillar australia mininig rio tinto bhp cropped\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" \/><br \/>BHP and Rio Tinto have started on-site testing of Caterpillar\u2019s Cat 793 XE Early Learner battery-electric haul trucks at the Jimblebar iron ore mine in Western Australia. The joint trial will assess battery-electric haulage as an alternative to diesel in large-scale mining. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2025\/12\/08\/bhp-and-rio-tinto-begin-battery-electric-haul-truck-trials-in-australia\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/12\/bhp-and-rio-tinto-begin-battery-electric-haul-truck-trials-in-australia.jpg&#8221; class=&#8221;attachment-large size-large&#8221; alt=&#8221;Caterpillar australia mininig rio tinto bhp cropped&#8221; decoding=&#8221;async&#8221; fetchpriority=&#8221;high&#8221; loading=&#8221;eager&#8221; \/&gt;BHP and Rio Tinto have started on-site testing of Caterpillar\u2019s Cat 793 XE Early Learner battery-electric haul trucks at the Jimblebar iron ore mine in Western Australia. The joint trial will assess battery-electric haulage as an alternative to&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/bhp-and-rio-tinto-begin-battery-electric-haul-truck-trials-in-australia\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":340829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}