Ah, the mysterious Chinese equipment manufacturers. You might know some of them, such as Sany, XCMG, LiuGong, and Zoomlion.

Over the past several years, manufacturers have teased battery electric compact machine prototypes at major industry shows. But until very recently, the availability of actual production machines was ...

Editor’s note: This is a corollary to an article by the same author on instances when a hydraulic press might be the best option — “Hydraulic vs. Electric Injection Molding Machines: When Energy ...

Using electricity to propel vehicles and power equipment work systems is not new. The majority of cars on U.S. highways in the early 1900s were battery powered and far outnumbered those using gas or ...

US battery maker Proterra and multinational Komatsu partnered in January 2021 to develop electric mid-sized hydraulic excavators, and today they announced that Komatsu’s first 20-ton class lithium-ion ...

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 ...

The four new models, including lithium-ion battery prototypes, will be on display at Bauma 2022 in Munich, Germany, later this month. The 320 medium excavator is just one of four new electric machine ...

At The Utility Expo, Editor-in-Chief Lori Ditoro talked with Greg Worley from Caterpillar. In this video, he shares the electric 301.9 mini excavator that provides the same performance as the diesel ...

It’s not just capable of driverless operation, the SANY SKT145Ei doesn’t even have a place for the driver to sit! The company’s latest all-electric heavy haul truck ditches the driver’s cab in favor ...

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 ...

Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Schneider Electric's CEO and chairman, at Innovation Summit 2018 Delta Systems & Automation, now part of Ilapak Group, is a manufacturer of integrated packaging systems that has ...