Unlike road EVs, off-highway vehicles need different battery solutions but in only small batches. Rory Jackson looks at how this company addresses that For on-highway vehicles, electrification is now seen as the way to go, but the future for electrified off-highway ones such as construction dozers, mining trucks and so on is less clear.
Off-highway mobile machines are often larger than the biggest on-road trucks, and vary widely in their size, power, cost, environmental harshness, and weight. For example, there are 0.5 t mini-excavators and 400 t haul trucks, and if you include non-terrestrial vehicles, there are 500 t aircraft and 55,000 t container ships in need of electrification. They are also usually supplied in tens of units or even single ones, even to major industrial operators. Read more…