The Governments new Investment Boost tax incentive means you can immediately deduct 20% of the cost of trucks and machinery from your taxable income.
This initiative, lower interest rates, and the higher dairy payout, could see the Fieldays® being buoyant this year.
Our 2025 Fieldays® special:
The first EV truck, loader or excavator order placed at the Fieldays® gets a free 60kW DC charger valued at $28,700 + GST. All subsequent EV orders at the Fieldays® receive a $20,000 credit toward their choice of DC charger.
On our D24 stand at the Fieldays® this year the Windrose, Gareth White’s XC975PHEV hybrid log loader and Green Gorilla’s XC938EV battery electric wheel loader.
Etrucks attended the XCMG customer festival recently and received an award for our efforts in delivering pure electric loaders in New Zealand.
Amongst the machinery launches and displays there were some excellent shows, and even our hotel got in on the advertising.
Some pictures of the machine highlights of the show are in this dropbox link.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/
The autonomous equipment displays were next level. An unmanned XC968EV loading a truck
A very impressive autonomous XE215EV excavator loading the same truck.
https://youtu.be/FsBgcdpaN9g
Here an autonomous paver being loaded by a moving floor trailer, all running unmanned with a couple of spotters.
https://youtu.be/RzI1Aysmt2c
Two autonomous, no cabin, delivery vans at the truck factory. You can see these out working in some Chinese cities now.
https://youtu.be/imb5DWm0FQo
XCMG have released a high grade 15t XC948EV wheel loader with a 242kWh battery. This one has a piston pump hydraulic system and is virtually silent.
Also brand new is the XE135CREV 17t short tail swing excavator with a 262kWh battery.
A video of 100 autonomous battery swapping XCMG mining trucks running in a Yimin mine.
These also have no driver cabin, so are autonomous or remote control only.
https://youtu.be/GK7_XoFRnTc
Our robotic battery swap system is now operational. Thanks to EECA for their assistance and Phoenix and Mainfreight for the use of their truck and spare battery. The video is here:
https://youtu.be/00IBRlGIDLM
Our first Farizon H9E refrigerated truck soon to be in Tiptop colours. It will be keeping ice cream lovers in Wellington happy, working for Naik Distributors.
Perhaps the Investment Boost tax incentive has played a part in a flurry of scissor lift orders in the last two weeks. All of these will head to new homes in the next week or so.
Will solar be the answer for future electricity demand? The recent dramatic improvement in solar array output vs cost has seen worldwide installations far outpace previous expectations.
