Tag: Volvo CE LX1

Battery electric
Volvo, Skanska to test electric, autonomous site quarry for 10 weeks this fall
Come fall, Volvo will see its electric site quarry come to life thanks to the help of Skanska Sweden. Watch Volvo's RC model demonstration on Equipment World.
May 22, 2018
Volvo HX2 autonomous carrier
Construction Equipment
Volvo’s LX1 hybrid loader prototype achieves a 50% fuel efficiency gain over L150
After six months of testing at two Waste Management facilities in California, Volvo Construction Equipment says its electric hybrid LX1 prototype loader achieved up to 50 percent fuel efficiency improvement over a comparison machine, well exceeding the 35 percent goal it set for the project.   The LX1, unveiled at the Volvo CE’s Xploration Forum […]
July 17, 2017
Volvo L150 side by side with LX1
Construction Equipment
Inside development of the Volvo CE LX1 as the hybrid-electric loader goes into field testing
Volvo Construction Equipment introduced its first concept of a hybrid wheel loader at the 2008 ConExpo-Con/Agg … and then went silent. The long wait between then and now was acknowledged by Scott Young, Volvo CE’s program manager for electromobility during the company’s recent Xploration Forum. But the wait has had its upsides, Young says: electrification […]
October 21, 2016
Volvo CE’s LX1 loader delivers a payload to the HX1, an autonomous hauler. Both machines were unveiled at the company’s Xploration Forum.
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
Because of their high maneuverability, wheel loaders used in the Electric Site would be hybrid units.
Battery electric
Volvo CE Unveils its Future: Concept machines reveal bets on automation, electrification
During its 2016 Xploration Forum Volvo offered intriguing glimpses of where it was headed.
September 16, 2016
Volvo’s “pre-prototype” LX1 electric hybrid wheel loader deposits a payload into the HX1, another concept machine the company describes as an autonomous, fully-electric load carrier.
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