Autonomous electric heavy vehicles sounds like a great idea on its face, but what happens when it malfunctions or someone figures out how to hack into it? Would love to see what the expected service life of the battery and what the expected cost to recharge it on a regular basis though. Still wondering why we aren't taking a better look at hydrogen cell vehicles considering how much hydrogen is available due to current manufacturing processes.
This bulldozer was initially built to be exported to Libya in the early 1980s to help in land development.[citation needed] As the Leader of Libya, Colonel Gaddafi, was heavily involved with international terrorism at that time, the United States imposed a trade embargo on that country in 1986.[3] As a direct consequence of these trade restrictions, the completed Acco Dozer was never shipped to its intended destination.[4] This bulldozer has never been put to any operational use and was put into storage where it was built.[citation needed]
Acco ceased its existence when both Umberto Acco, the founder, and soon after, his son, died. They left no legacy to the management of the Acco company.[citation needed] In 2008, the main and secondary shops slowly turned into a dump yard of any kind of earth moving machinery, including the super bulldozer and its brother, a 200-ton super grader.[citation needed]
By the end of May 2012 the dozer had been moved away from the abandoned Acco facility and is now safely stored at a local gardening company in the same town to be preserved and eventually put on display.[citation needed] The Acco Superdozer moved under its own power onto the trailer that took it to the new location