Komatsu plans 13-tonne battery-powered digger

The PC138E-11, powered by a lithium-ion battery, launches in Komatsu’s domestic Japanese market this month earlier than making its European debut at the Intermat replace elegant in Paris in April.

Komatsu says that it has paired a excessive-capacity lithium-ion battery with an built-in cooling machine for the battery and electric ingredients to finished “prolonged” (however no longer yet specified) operation time while lowering the rear-stop swing radius.

While battery-powered (and budge-in) mini excavators bask in turn into on hand in recent years, the marketplace for mid-size battery-powered diggers has stalled over performance. Some producers are having a query to hydrogen as a extra promising low carbon different to diesel for heavier responsibility equipment.

At Intermat 2024, Komatsu Europe will latest the PC138E-11 excavator with a Smooth Constructing 3D Machine Guidance equipment, a skills now on hand for a spread of Komatsu machines. The equipment offers an accessible technique to be succesful to add 2D and 3D machine guidance and might per chance even just even be customised with varied options that allow the equipment to greater accommodate every customer’s machine configurations and running prerequisites.

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