Bobcat Co. turned some heads at the Consumer Electronics Show in January by unveiling the T7X, the company’s new all-electric compact track loader that ditches not only the diesel engine but also the entire hydraulic system. While many equipment manufacturers have made electric-concept machines as one-off efforts, Bobcat sees electrification as a broader shift for the industry.
Developed in cooperation with electric vehicle-maker Moog Construction, the T7X is designed to leapfrog some electrification efforts underway in the construction equipment sector, according to Joel Honeyman, Bobcat vice president of global innovation.
“This was two leaps of technology,” he explains. “We not only added the battery, but we’ve added other levels of electronic controls.”
Replacing the compact track loader’s traditional hydraulics with electric actuator motors offers a different power curve than on an ordinary machine, but Honeyman says it’s the result of a long journey. Bobcat North America had developed a prototype electric compact track loader in 2019 but kept refining it to get where it is today.
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