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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