{"id":361576,"date":"2026-09-12T00:02:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/cat-puts-century-old-train-tech-to-work-in-new-heavier-electric-drive-dozer\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:02:58","slug":"cat-puts-century-old-train-tech-to-work-in-new-heavier-electric-drive-dozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/cat-puts-century-old-train-tech-to-work-in-new-heavier-electric-drive-dozer\/","title":{"rendered":"CAT puts century-old train tech to work in new, heavier electric drive dozer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/09\/cat-puts-century-old-train-tech-to-work-in-new-heavier-electric-drive-dozer.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Diesel-electric locomotives have been barreling along America\u2019s wide-open spaces for generations, and the century-old combination of consistent, high-efficiency diesel engines spinning up generators to power high-torque electric motors has proven tough to beat. Now, Caterpillar is putting that century-old concept to work in an even bigger dozer \u2013\u00a0and the promised efficiency gains are incredible. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/09\/11\/cat-puts-century-old-train-tech-to-work-in-new-heavier-electric-drive-dozer\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/cat-puts-century-old-train-tech-to-work-in-new-heavier-electric-drive-dozer\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":361577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}