Tag: electric excavator

Battery electric

Bobcat’s Electric Excavator Retrofit A First Step Toward An All-Electric Future

JLG is not the only construction equipment manufacturer with its sights on an all-electric machine. Here's what Bobcat is planning with a company called Green Machine.

August 28, 2020

Battery electric

Takeuchi’s TB220e electric excavator will come with fast-charge pack

Takeuchi made a splash at ConExpo 2017 with its e240 electric excavator, then one of the few electric machines seen by show attendees. The company brought back an electric excavator to the 2020 show, but this time with a different concept. This year’s show machine, the 4,277-pound TB220e, is completely designed and built by Takeuchi, […]

April 9, 2020

Dealers

Wacker Neuson unveils the EZ17e, its first battery-powered excavator

In Paris this week, Wacker Neuson has debuted its first fully electric, battery-powered EZ17e compact excavator. It’s aimed for urban work, tunnels, inside buildings, golf courses, schools, hospitals and other construction jobs where you want to keep emissions and noise to a minimum. The EZ17e is slated for release next year – first in Europe […]

April 25, 2018

Battery electric

Volvo unveils the EX2: First fully electric compact excavator prototype is faster, quieter

Volvo Construction Equipment has unveiled what the company believes to be the first fully electric compact excavator prototype. Eight months after unveiling the LX1 hybrid electric loader and the HX1 load carrier prototypes as part of the company’s vision for the autonomous and electrified quarries of the future, Volvo has taken the wraps off of […]

May 17, 2017