Haul vehicle and method for controlling haul vehicle

Abstract

A haul vehicle includes a dump body, a vehicle body supporting the dump body, a traveling apparatus including driving wheels and supporting the vehicle body, a trolley power receiving apparatus to which power is supplied from a trolley wire, a bidirectional DC/DC converter, a storage battery charged with power supplied from the trolley wire via the bidirectional DC/DC converter, an electric motor that generates driving force for rotating the driving wheels, and a switch mechanism that switches between a first state, in which power is supplied from the trolley wire to the electric motor via the bidirectional DC/DC converter, and a second state, in which power is supplied from the storage battery to the electric motor via the bidirectional DC/DC converter.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.