The U.S. heavy equipment industry is dominated by the use of diesel. HEVI, a developer of all-electric machines, wants to change this by offering clean and sustainable alternatives to the heavy machinery space.
“Any organization looking to be a little cleaner about their work has no option today,” said Raymond Wang, CEO of HEVI, in an interview with Power & Motion. “We wanted to change that.”
In 2022, the company launched its first product line of all-electric heavy equipment which includes two front loaders (aka wheel loaders) and one excavator ranging in size from about 12,000 to 40,000 lbs. “These are the large-scale products ready for the job site to move some material and get some work done,” he said.
Wang noted the company is a subsidiary of Greenland Technologies whose core business is the manufacture of drivetrains and transmissions for various types of machines including forklifts, front loaders and excavators. “So, we took that know-how to try to electrify a space that no one else was touching – construction [and other] heavy equipment.
“At any given point in time, in the U.S., we have about 1.2 million machines operating, and each machine will burn about 10 gallons of diesel per hour of use,” explained Wang. “That is equivalent to about 200 lbs. of CO2 [carbon dioxide] burned per machine per hour…[creating] a major dent in the carbon emissions pie for our country. So, we want to try to convert as many as we can from diesel to a cleaner source.”
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