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    What do ya'll think about battery electric excavators?

    So I shouldn't take the job? haha
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    What do ya'll think about battery electric excavators?

    ideally, there would need to be a charging truck (similar to a fuel tanker, except has a giant battery on it) that would be dropped off at your job site and recharged every few days. You can fit a 3 megawatt battery pack on a small flatbed truck. Would be enough power for a week. It would cost...
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    What do ya'll think about battery electric excavators?

    A rule of thumb you can use for converting gallons of diesel to KWh for a battery is… 1KWh = 0.30 gallons of diesel. So an 86 gallon tank of diesel is equivalent to a 287 kWh battery to get the same run time. In other words, if you use half of an 86 gallon tank per day, then you would use half...
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    What do ya'll think about battery electric excavators?

    Thank you! My family has been in the heavy construction industry for a few generations. I’m an engineer in the mil/aero industry but I’m about to make career change and I recently received an offer from a startup to lead their battery system development effort for heavy construction equipment...
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    What do ya'll think about battery electric excavators?

    This is good feedback thank you.
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    What do ya'll think about battery electric excavators?

    It seems like the big OEMS are investing alot in developing new battery electric machines... Just curious to see what ya'll think about it. Do you think it will be adopted over time? What are your biggest concerns? Is it even practical? I have a Tesla and love it, but my company's revenue...
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