Pon Equipment has unveiled a fully-electric excavator with a 300 kWh battery pack, which aims to reduce air and noise pollution in the construction industry. Weighing 26 mt, it is believed to be the first excavator of such a size to be converted to run on electricity. Pon Equipment, which developed the equipment in collaboration with Caterpillar, claims it can operate for up to seven hours at a time, with the product then recharged overnight.
Caterpillar has unveiled a fully-electric excavator with a 300 kWh battery pack, which aims to reduce air and noise pollution in the construction industry. Weighing 26 mt, it is believed to be the first excavator of such a size to be converted to run on electricity. Caterpillar, which developed the equipment in collaboration with Pon Equipment, claims it can operate for up to seven hours at a time, with the product then recharged overnight.