Caterpillar Inc. has been working on electric drive mining trucks for nearly 40 years, before the industry even wanted them. Now that the industry is ready and demand is starting to kick in, ...

Caterpillar has demonstrated its first battery-electric mining truck in prototype form. The Caterpillar 793 is a large mining dump truck with a battery-electric powertrain. It was developed in ...

The line of Caterpillar mining trucks is expanding with two electric-drive models, the 798 AC and 796 AC. The 798 AC features a 410-ton payload, and the 796 AC delivers a 360-ton payload and is meant ...

This week, Caterpillar successfully demonstrated a prototype of an all-new battery electric underground mining truck at its Australian proving grounds, making it the latest addition to a ...

Heavy duty construction machinery producer Caterpillar has built and demonstrated an electric version of its monstrous 2,650-horsepower mining truck, aimed at helping the mining industry transition to ...

As automakers aim to produce more electric cars and trucks, Caterpillar has shown that battery-electric powertrains can scale up to something much larger. The company recently demonstrated a mammoth ...