Tag: electric heavy equipment

Construction Equipment

Bobcat rolls out the E10e, its first electric mini excavator

Bobcat’s dive into battery-powered construction equipment has had two causes for celebration recently. According to a report from Middle East Construction News, the company’s first fully-electric, 1-ton mini excavator—the E10e zero tail swing (ZTS)—started rolling off the production line in July. Plus, the machine’s “entire production run for the year has already been sold out,” […]

August 29, 2019

Construction Equipment

Tobroco-Giant unveils G2200E, its first electric compact wheel loader, alongside three new articulated loaders

Tobroco-Giant has introduced its first electric, zero-emissions compact wheel loaders, along with three new articulated loaders. The G2200E and G2200E X-TRA are equipped with a 48-volt lithium-ion battery that has a minimum capacity of 12.3 kilowatts. The loaders are designed for indoor operations or urban construction sites. The articulated loaders deliver nearly silent operation. The […]

July 3, 2019

Battery electric

Cat separates energy segment into divisions for electric power and oil/gas/marine amid executive shuffle

One of half will focus entirely on the development of electric power generation while the other will focus on oil, gas and marine. Details on Equipment World.

February 21, 2019

Battery electric

Volvo CE to launch up to 10 electric excavators and loaders by 2020, replacing diesel models entirely

The new machines will include electrified versions of the company's smallest compact excavators and its smallest compact wheel loaders. More on Equipment World.

February 20, 2019

Battery electric

Hyundai, Cummins unveil jointly-developed electric mini excavator

Cummins & Hyundai Construction Equipment have said they're co-developing electrified heavy equipment, and the two companies are showing off their early work in a battery-powered excavator.

December 25, 2018

Battery electric

Deutz bolts hybrid and electric drivelines to its engines, creating new E-Deutz portfolio

Deutz showed us its new prototype electric drives and hybrid and fully electric demonstration machines including two Manitou and two Liebherr telehandlers.

September 26, 2018

Construction Equipment

Cat strikes UK alliance with AVID Technology to develop batteries for heavy equipment

Cat UK and AVID Technology are teaming up to develop a battery system for heavy equipment. Check out the details of the $3.5M project on Equipment World.

August 14, 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

Battery electric

How Volvo CE is engineering a quarry run by electric loaders and haulers for big cuts to costs and emissions

Volvo Construction Equipment, the Swedish Energy Agency, Skanska Sweden construction firm and two universities have been working on what the group is calling the Electric Site project. The $30 million project is ambitious, aimed at creating an electrified quarry where not only are carbon emissions reduced by up to 95 percent, but also the total […]

October 18, 2016

Construction Equipment

Fuel cell research leads to breakthrough on more powerful batteries for electric vehicles

It’s no secret that the biggest hindrance to today’s battery technology is what the majority of the batteries that power our computers, phones, smartwatches and, increasingly, cars, are made of: lithium. After 20 years of hybrid car development and selling thousands of Priuses, Toyota may be more familiar with the frustrations of wrangling a highly unstable […]

May 11, 2016

Construction Equipment

Wacker Neuson is quietly building an entire line of electric loaders, excavators and more

While most manufacturers of larger machines focus much of their engineering resources on Tier 4 performance and experiments with hybrid machines, Wacker Neuson, whose specialty is compact equipment, is hard at work building a zero emissions fleet. At the Bauma show in Munich last month, Wacker Neuson displayed its ‘E’ lineup and discussed the machines […]

May 5, 2016

Construction Equipment

Genie’s new Z-60/37 FE boom lift operates in full-electric or hybrid drive modes; new Z-45/25XC doubles lift capacity

Driven by high-efficiency AC motors, the new Genie Z-60/37 FE boom lift provides two modes of operation: full-electric or hybrid. Introduced at Bauma last week, the machine can run a full week on a tank of diesel in the hybrid mode. In full-electric it has enough power to run for a day. A 24-horsepower, […]

April 18, 2016