September 3rd 2024
I was in Hefei recently for some more Windrose testing. We used 109kWh of battery to travel 104km on the test track at a steady 80kph loaded to 49t gross. That is 1.05kWh/km, which indicates a duration of 624km with 10% battery remaining. Very impressive.
Yep we were loaded, not that you noticed much with 1400hp available. The truck on the right is the demo unit on it’s way to New Zealand.
Windrose will exhibit at IAA in Hannover, hall 12, stand B71. Etrucks® will be on site on the 19th and the 20th of September. Let me know if you would like to meet at the stand to check out the truck, or book a test drive.
Customer tests are also continuing including a Shanghai to Nanjing round trip for Rittal
A video of a previous test with Kerry Logistics.
https://youtu.be/T1k2628fAFA
Our revamped website is up and running. Quite a few new products are listed.
https://etrucks.co.nz/
We managed to get the Landex and Etrucks® team together, not so easy with so much going on .
Handover day for Isaac Construction’s XC968EV wheel loader at their state of the art asphalt plant in Christchurch.
16% of all wheel loaders sold in China in July were electric. Electric wheel loaders are expected to exceed diesel wheel loader sales as soon as 2027.
And charging up the loader out on site with Isaac’s dual gun 200kWh battery trailer charger.
Gavin Shoebridge’s Ecotricity video chatting with Noel De Bruin about the charging trailer, the XCMG electric digger and E400 is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Handover day for Bullocks Concrete and Gravel XC968EV loader, at their aggregates facility in Bulls.
There are now 50 units of this model that have clocked over 20,000 hours.
For grid limited sites we can now offer the 22.5t XCMG XC975 PHEV wheel loader. You can save 30% in diesel use compared to a conventional loader, even more if you have the ability to charge it often.
A video of it in electric drive mode is here.
https://youtu.be/rkvWrcCW2lc
XCMG/Schwing have reduced the weight of the E700 8×4 mixer truck by a remarkable 3,300kg. They are now only 12,000kg ready to go with a 6cbm electric drive bowl.
The rubber suspension and the electric mixer bowl drive.
A video of 100 or so units lined up in the stock yard.
https://youtu.be/VBSl7qwKnXs
Some more highway testing, this time a hydrogen fuel cell truck in Chongqing last week.
Farizon has now delivered 300,000 new energy commercial vehicles powered by batteries, methanol or hydrogen. Unfortunately the G3 pictured, won’t be offered in RHD for a few years.
The 700kWh battery in the 35t XC9108EV, currently the largest battery electric wheel loader available to order from XCMG.
A video of the XC9108EV is here
https://youtu.be/Qxbd2cTtiuk
A line up of XCMGs EV equipment at a recent exhibition.
Our two latest TF1300 mini telehandlers have arrived and are ready to deliver to the Kennedy Family in Auckland, and Andrew Walters in Fielding
A Mantall XE120W heading out to Jetflight Air Services in Auckland.
Congratulations to XCMG on the roll out of their solar arrays across their factories in Xuzhou. This is one of the buildings at the road machinery factory.
23% of XCMGs total energy use now comes from solar and 26% of their revenue from the renewables sector
I guess it’s a backhoe with a turntable? Conventional
