Gav tries a battery powered digger! (SANY SY19E)

[@kelvynbettridge]

You only need to spend a few hours seated beside a diesel exhaust to realise changing these to electric is a no brainer.

[@theunknownunknowns256]

Also worksite decibel levels are greatly reduced. In Europe contractors use electric machinery like this in built-up locations where noise regulations are in place during certain hours.

[@peterjackson6228]

Ah nice! That's really impressive! So quiet, so clean! I can see these being really popular for utilities companies that need to lay new pipes/cables and for builders working on house extensions.

[@grantlouw3182]

Too much fun - if you only go for an hour! You answered your own question - old school diesel ones aren’t much fun if you breathing in fumes all day.

[@scottmclanachan3036]

Last time I saw an excavator of this size in use was at a cemetery. An all-electric version would make so much more sense in that situation.

[@Dqtube]

Bonus point for Village People style thumbnail 🙃 It is interesting that the adoption of electric motors has been so slow in this segment, as forklifts and similar small manipulators have been in electric versions for a long time.

[@HamishMcNaughton]

😂 Thanks for the Space Balls reference!

[@theunknownunknowns256]

Gavin you should see if you could find a all electric mowing (grounds keeping) crew to do a episode on. The square in pamly north uses an electric ride on mower and Victoria Esplanade has electric side by side utility buggys but other tools are still two stroke.

[@adus123]

I have started replacing my two-stroke with electric in my gardening business just the blower and strimmer for now. I love that you can just pick them up and go no messing about starting them. and a lot less noise. Electric is the way to go.

[@davidcolin6519]

@@adus123 I'm not convinced by electric chain saws though. Although I don't use a CS professionally, I do regularly do a full day of felling/cutting up trees ion my land. I just can't see that electric chain saws are there yet, especially not for larger saw sizes.

[@adus123]

@@davidcolin6519 I don't use them much so can't say. All I can say is the batteries I have for the tools I have last way longer than I was expecting with loads of power. I am only replacing the tools I use the most. I don't think they are there yet for all the tools. I use a single-sided hedge trimmer I haven't seen a good replacement one on the market yet to match it.

[@davidcolin6519]

@@adus123 Yeah, I have a battery hedge trimmer that is fine, but there again, I don't have miles of hedges to trim. Mine is a really cheap one, but it really does a fine job and is far easier to use than any other hedge trimmer I have used.

[@SamAlexCaldwell]

I love everything about this.

[@jeremyfk]

Roll on the electric revolution!

[@jaywontdart]

@2m36s "I can't afford the rights to this song, let's just crack into it" :-)

[@nevzatsifa8186]

How much money do I spend for getting one of this ? I loved it

[@oersson]

Pretty cool! What's the cost of one of those machines?

[@QALibrary]

A very nice machine

[@tstraw48]

They missed the opportunity to call it the San-E

[@coolspot18]

Sany comes from the Chinese name "Three One" (San Yi) which apparently comes from 3 goals, one society motto.

[@willhopkirk1715]

No seated heats!

[@EcotricityNZ]

That will change when I come to power! Mwahaha! -Gav

[@SydneyEV]

wow, your luggage lock code is 1234 WOW! what a coincidence

[@martiruda]

Lets thank effing chevron to only destroy a single type of chemistry (NiMH). Imagine if they hadn't stop this development from the 90s onwards.

[@Zarphag]

Just wait till it has to pay RUCs! Oh.

[@slimjim1125]

Yea, because it's totally a road-going vehicle 🥴🥴

[@nzbenny]

first to comment (I guess)!!

[@billyholiday4947]

Blah! Blah! Blah! What a waste of my time!

[@Tekkennut]

Sany SY19E is a better model name than Sony's WF-1000XM5 (Great Earbuds but terrible name 😅)