Capital Equipment News May 2019

BAUMA 2019 REVIEW – ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT

ELECTROMOBILITY BY VOLVO CE • 80% – Charge up to 80% in as little as 1-2 hours • 8 hours – Up to 8 hours runtime on a single charge • 0 – Zero exhaust emissions

The L25 incorporates lithium-ion batteries which allow for eight hours of operation in the machine’s regular applications, including light infrastructure work, gardening, landscaping and agriculture.

Moving with the current

At bauma 2019, Volvo Construction Equipment proved it is delivering on its commitment to ‘building tomorrow’ by unveiling its first fully electric compact machines to be commercially available – the ECR25 excavator and L25 wheel loader, writes Munesu Shoko .

V olvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) at Volvo Trucks, Volvo Buses and Volvo Penta are at the forefront of emobility in their respective industries. “Through hard work, engineering ingenuity and hard- earned experiences, we have developed electric solutions that never compromise on performance while providing all the benefits of electric power,” says Melker Jernberg, president of Volvo Construction Equipment. The machines, which are the first to be shown from a new electric range of Volvo-branded compact excavators and compact wheel loaders, deliver zero exhaust emissions, significantly lower noise levels, reduced energy costs, improved efficiency and less maintenance requirements, compared to their conventional counterparts. From mid-2020, Volvo CE will begin to launch its range has been developing and adapting electric technology through a number of research projects and concept models for a long time. And across the Volvo Group, its colleagues

of electric compact excavators (EC15 to EC27) and wheel loaders (L20 to L28), stopping new diesel engine-based development of these models. “From ever more urbanised cities to rural farms, compact equipment is all around us. It is also a segment that continues to grow, putting us all in increasingly closer proximity. By introducing our first electric compact machines, we hope to steer this growth in the right direction,” says Jernberg. Electric operation To make the ECR25 and L25 electric, the combustion engines have been replaced with lithium-ion batteries. The ECR25 is fitted with lithium-ion batteries and one electric motor which powers the hydraulics in order to move the machine and the attachment. The machine’s batteries store enough electric energy to power the ECR25 for eight hours in its most common applications, such as utility work. The L25 incorporates lithium-ion batteries which

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