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Last week I made my first trip back to China and XCMG after a three year break due to the Covid pandemic. Innovation and growth have continued at XCMG unabated.
The green ones are heavy duty with 70t GVM for steel mills etc.
This is the first E400 and has been built in RHD for New Zealand. It features an integrated single speed drive axle and 127kWh battery for over 200km duration.
The battery swap station for New Zealand is nearly completed. It is completely robotic and designed to work unmanned. Swap time will be around 5 minutes.
I test drove the prototype 12t XC938EV loader which has a 180kWh battery for 5 to 8 hours run time. This render shows the final design for New Zealand.
The diesel electric XC9150 was also at the test ground. The loader is rated at 15 tonne lift and has joystick steering. It is driven by four hub motors
This inward goods bay at the loader factory used to hold diesel engines. Now a good proportion stores CATL lithium batteries.
XCMGs electric excavators are now available with either fixed or swapable batteries. The swap system allows the excavators to be used more or less continuously and in remote locations, perhaps even in forestry.
The battery electric XE60E has just been released for testing
Tethered electric excavators are available in various sizes, seen here at 60 tonne.
We have a special on these 15 tonne GR1805 graders. Powered by a Cummins engine they are available at $184,000 + GST ex Auckland.
The electric port equipment was on display. Both the reach stacker and empty container handler will soon have swapable batteries for continuous use.
They reach stackers can be fitted with this rotating head to allow rapid emptying of 20 foot open top containers
A video of the rotator unloading a container is here:
https://youtu.be/Z4j3jocDRhU
Some port equipment in stock
XCMG will open a new, largely robotic factory for access equipment in August. This will allow them to treble output. The diesel scissor lifts look very good.
Of much interest to New Zealand are these steel tracked crawler booms with 25m working height.
Back in New Zealand Gavin Shoebridge seen discussing with our GM Jamie Ryan during a battery swap video for Ecotricity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIh_iaxm3cc
Phoenix Metalman’s E700 6×4 made the cover of Trucks and Driver.
The video is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XdoOMLjwbQ
Mike Irvine from Controlled Building Services picking up his XE80N and trailer package.
An XE120W heading to Canterbury for Pegasus Bay
Another Red Dot design award for XCMG, this time for the streamlined XS125 single drum roller. This machine will be on XCMG’s stand at Con Ex in Las Vegas in mid march. Let me know if you are also attending the show.
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Back into it for 2023 and plenty of work on for Landex and Etrucks.
Our three E700 8×4 bulk tippers on delivery day to Ghella Abergeldie – JV for Watercare’s Central Interceptor project.
XCMG has signed a 1000 unit order for the hydrogen FCEV version of our E700 tractors. The first 100 have rolled out the gate already.
A video of XCMG’s 16t fully electric forklift the XCF1612E is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKXSipx9BwU
The XCMG fully electric ECH now has battery swapping capability. This unit in Qingdao offers 3-4 hours hard work per battery with each battery swap taking around 6 minutes.
After several shipping delays the first two XC918EV’s should be in New Zealand by the end of February.
A bit of a professional challenge for Loadrite fitting perhaps the first ever scales to an EV loader. All solved now and the XC968EV is weighing accurately.
XCMG have launched two more tethered electric material handlers with rising cabins, the XE230EM and the XE500EM. We have pricing available for NZ compliant models.
Shantui have released their fully electric 26t dozer the DE26X2, now in testing in China
Introducing the European spec XC968E wheel loader powered by a 298hp Cummins L9 tier V engine. The 21.3t machine has a 3.5cbm bucket and retails at $317,000 + GST
Follis Enterprises XC958 now with wide tyres fitted for agriculture use now pushing silage in Canterbury.
An LW180KNZ delivered to Lyster Contracting in Masterton
Another of the same model delivered to Green Gorilla’s Huntly site.
Mike Levings picking up an XE60ED for Total yacht care in Pahia and Anothony Koenen taking delivery of his XE60ED for Handi Access
Steve Butterfield taking an XE80N and trailer south to Wellington for Burnsfield Engineering and Wenzel Meiring picking up the same package for RTR Painters
A time lapse video of the assembly XCA2600 all terrain crane with a long lattice boom for a wind farm installation in China. I assume to heavy too self deliver on local roads.
https://youtu.be/nFnS2vabE8I
The crawler version with the same lift capacity working in another wind farm.
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Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy 2023 from the team at Landex and Etrucks®
Thanks to everyone who came to visit us at the Fieldays.
The PM didn’t make it to our stand but did make the time to view Milk-E
Mainfreight also displayed their E700 tractor.
Our first fully electric 20t wheel loader is up and running at BHQ’s Logan Pt Quarry in Dunedin.
A couple of short videos are here, you can turn the volume up;
https://youtu.be/C4DaL1srzLs
https://youtu.be/el5ymHSBiC4
We have had an excellent year in 2022 supplying innovative solutions to a wide range of clients in a variety of industries.
We expect 2023 to be even better with these projects already underway:
New Zealand’s first robotic battery swap station for trucks;
A three truck fleet of electric bulk tippers in operation in Auckland;
Delivery of our first fully electric concrete mixer truck;
Fully electric hook trucks and container swing lifters arriving in New Zealand;
Supplying fully electric contractors packages as below.
For those interested, the latest EECA contestable funding round includes zero emissions off highway machines for the first time.
Details are here.
http:// https://www.eeca.govt.nz/co-funding/transport-emission-reduction/low-emission-transport-fund/round-7-demonstration-of-vehicles-technology-and-off-road/
Perhaps a fully electric 90t tipper or a reach stacker?
Also to be released in 2023 the 46t capacity 6×6 diesel dumper on wide tyres
We hope you enjoy these newsletters and we look forward to helping with your machinery solutions for 2023.
Wishing you a wonderful holiday break with family and friends
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Landex and Etrucks® will exhibit at our normal site at the Fieldays® from November 30th to December 3rd at Mystery Creek in Hamilton.
D24 is in the Heavy Equipment precinct near the South Exit.
We will feature the New Zealand debut of the XC968EV our 20t fully electric wheel loader. An excellent zero emissions package with an E700 8×4 with a Mills Tui tipper.
Milk-E will be in the main Fonterra marquee and Mainfreight will exhibit their E700 6×4 tractor at their stand E88-E90
We will also debut our tracked booms, the battery electric X10 and the hybrid X12. The booms can self level on both axis for use on sloping ground.
We will also bring a range of XCMG diesel loaders from 6 tonne to 16 tonne.
Plus a range of Mantall tracked and wheeled scissors and booms.
And to round out the site, our 4WD CHL 3 tonne forklift.
We look forward to seeing you there.
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XCMG had their largest ever display at Bauma in Munich last week.
A short video of the stand is here:
https://youtu.be/YlstsBmxCR4
The fully electric excavators the XE27U-E and the XE35U-E were on display. The 4300kg XE35U-E has a 70kWh battery giving 8 hours run time and can be fully charged in half an hour.
A video of the XE35U-E here:
https://youtu.be/B93rEWGHSa8
Ideal for a zero emissions combo with the new seven tonne payload tipper which has a 210kWh battery.
Also on display the battery powered XC918EV which has won a Red Dot design award. We have two ready for shipping to New Zealand soon.
XCMG’s XCA60 EV 60 tonne all terrain crane.
XCMG’s 2.5 tonne/ 6 meter fully electric telehandler the XC6-2506
The all new XS125 roller now has a completely different counter weight for better visibility and maneuverability.
The most “out there” offering at Bauma was Liebherr’s T274E diesel/electric rigid with power from overhead trolley cables for uphill. That is some axle
Back in NZ the first Mills Tui alloy tipper body is now fitted to our E700 8×4.
Phoenix’s E700 6×4 looking smart with new trailer graphics.
Often the simplest idea is the best. These manual swap heads make operating a small swap station much more affordable with a gantry or large forklift.
A second TS2503 tracked stabilizer getting prepped for Opie Contractors.
Our first XCMG lithium battery electric forklift getting ready for work for Watercare in Auckland. The 3.5t has an 83v, 420Ah LFP battery for 8 hour run time. Now available with optional fingertip controls.
Dan Phillips of Tararua Scissor Lift Hire taking delivery of their XE80CTOR and trailer
An XE80CTOR off to Christchurch for Mode Construction and another picked up for Good Guys Hire by Gavin Lupton
Mark Brown of The Armoury Acess Hire picking up a couple two XE80CTORs
Three more XE60ED minis delivered to Joe Leslie of Commercial Roller Doors, Smiths Interiors and James Stewart of CPL Group
With Christmas coming a couple of gift suggestions from Bauma. XCMG have these fully functioning remote control excavators.
A video is here:
https://youtu.be/epKt3YgQ8VM
Or for the bigger sandpit, this offering from Komatsu.
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New truck releases at IAA Transport in Hanover were overwhelmingly new energy options, mostly battery EV, but also from gases of various types.
The Benz GenH2 was pushing the boundaries the furthest with 880hp powered by fuel cells from liquid hydrogen stored on truck at -253C. Chunky styling on the Ford BEV waste truck.
The European launch of the XCMG battery swapping trucks caused quite a stir with all the major manufacturers sending engineers to scope the technology. XCMG now use our Etrucks® logo now which is nice.
XCMG’s displayed an operational scale model the latest fully robotic battery swap station with a stacking system for the charging batteries.
An artists impression of the new swapping station.
Battery powered trailers are a reality with this prototype carrying up to 600kWh of batteries under the deck with the center axle driven. The whole thing is controlled through load sensors in the kingpin.
XCMG shipped 345 fully E700s to Brazil last month, their largest single export of zero emissions trucks.
Demand for XCMG’s fully electric construction equipment is growing quickly. 100 units of the 27 tonne XE270E also being exported to South America.
A video is here:
https://youtu.be/3151WUTM5cs
Another dozen XC968EV wheel loaders going to work in China.
For those concerned that electric loaders might be a bit gutless check out this acceleration test by a Thai dealer against the diesel equivalent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_FVtQ3tL8M
The first two XC918EV electric loaders for New Zealand are in final assembly.
XCMG will display the new XE35U-E electric excavator at Bauma in Munich next month. Now upgraded with a 70kWh battery and charging in under an hour.
Back in New Zealand an article from Stuff with a review of the Mainfreight tractor from driver Peter Wallis.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/129812483/electric-truck-swaps-battery-faster-than-it-takes-to-fill-a-tank
Another run to Mills Tui with an 8×4 for the addition of a tipper body. I stopped in at Mainfreight in Hamilton for a quick top up via their 180kW charger. The interesting part is that the power comes from 690 solar panels on the roof.
Two more TF1300s heading out to Coresteel and Impact Enviromental Services
Two more rough terrain forklifts for MKC Machinery and Golden Edge
Two more XE80Ns going out to Form NZ
If you need one of them working on the first or second floor…….
A bit of a run on our tracked scissors recently. One getting picked up by Te Puke contractor Shane Martin and another out to Davies Homes
Another tracked machine for Swift Access in Auckland and one for Ajax Building Contractors in Mataura.
A 12m working height slab scissor out to TDM in Christchurch, the other out to JJ Ltd in Mosgiel
First look at XCMG’s new large tyred, rigid, 6×6, off highway dump truck.
The largest all terrain crane in the world, the ten axle XGA2600, seen here with a 160m jib for wind farm work. That’s 340t of counterweight above the cab.
After 13000 hours of testing the second generation 700t excavator has been released. The main improvements have been in cooling performance and better walk in access to the pump rooms.
