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Caterpillar intros 336F L XE hybrid excavator: smart pumps, boom work faster, burn less fuel (PHOTOS)

Now we know. In 2012 when Caterpillar first unveiled it’s 336EH hybrid excavator, the company spokespeople offered only vague notions about how and when they might deploy this new technology on other excavators. But at a press event last week in Tinaja Hills, Arizona, Cat showed us not only it’s newest hybrid machine the 336F […]

May 19, 2015

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar intros 336F L XE hybrid excavator: smart pumps, boom work faster, burn less fuel (PHOTOS)

Now we know. In 2012 when Caterpillar first unveiled it’s 336EH hybrid excavator, the company spokespeople offered only vague notions about how and when they might deploy this new technology on other excavators. But at a press event last week in Tinaja Hills, Arizona, Cat showed us not only it’s newest hybrid machine the 336F […]

May 19, 2015

Business

Caterpillar 336E H hydraulic hybrid excavator nets company its first Edison Award

Fresh on its proper introduction to the public at the massive Bauma construction equipment show in Munich, Caterpillar’s 336E H hydraulic hybrid excavator has won a 2013 Silver Edison innovation award. Like an electrical hybrid system, the 336E H captures and reuses energy. But rather than reuse electricity, the excavator uses hydraulic accumulators built into […]

April 30, 2013

Business

Caterpillar CEO talks hybrid tech, rental business at Bauma

Noting that the 2010 Icelandic volcano prevented him from attending the last Bauma show, Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar president and CEO, used that circumstance as an example of how much technology has advanced in just three years during remarks made today at the international trade show. “Then, we were scrambling to get a satellite feed. Now, […]

April 16, 2013

Construction Equipment

Live chat archive: Caterpillar answers questions on new 336E H hybrid excavator

April 12, 2013

Construction Equipment

TONIGHT: Join our live chat with Caterpillar on the 336E H hybrid excavator

Tonight, at 6 p.m. Central, we’ll be chatting up a storm from our Twitter bunker here at Equipment World headquarters as we try to answer all of your questions about Caterpillar’s new 336E H hybrid excavator. We’ve even launched a new page of the website where you can submit questions and view the chat as it happens. […]

April 11, 2013