A Belgium-based company is expected to launch its first battery-electric mini excavator. Hyundai Construction Equipment Europe is likely to launch the HX19e excavator between April 7-13 in Munich, ...

Just about every major OEM at CONEXPO had fresh zero-emission machinery meant to match diesel on performance and beat it on ...

Battery-powered hand tools now own the fix-it market. Yard equipment has its cell sights set on suburbia. Farm country, however, requires a much higher threshold of reliability. That isn’t slowing ...

Gradall Industries showed it electrified concept EL41H4 highway speed wheeled excavator during Conexpo 2023. Powered by Volvo Penta’s electric driveline, the electric excavator is based on the company ...

Who says electric powertrains are just for cars? Netherlands-based Pon Equipment converted a Caterpillar excavator to battery power. The company hopes this one-off project will serve as a template for ...

WM will test an electric excavator from Volvo Construction Equipment at one of its facilities on the East Coast. The pilot will test the EC230 excavator performing the same tasks that diesel-powered ...

Electric-powered equipment has been adjacent to construction for some time. Electric machines are a common sight in mining, while indoor loading and material-handling equipment have long relied on ...

Personal vehicles aren’t the only kind going electric — we’ve already reported on all-electric planes, garbage trucks, and even cargo ships. We can now add one more type of vehicle to the list: ...

Did you know that there are excavators out there that rely on telescopic and tilting booms instead of conventional knuckle booms? The American manufacturer Gradall Industries is making this kind of ...

Pon Equipment from Norway, with support from Caterpillar, has developed an interesting conversion of a 28-ton Cat 323 Hydraulic Excavator to an all-electric Cat 323F Z-line. This huge excavator ...

After trundling out electric heavy machinery at a test quarry in 2018, Volvo has now sold its first all-electric construction industry vehicle in France. The compact electric excavator has been ...