Getting Beyond the Hype of Electric Construction Equipment

[@aaronbounds1336]

The electric grid has lots of room to handle electrical load demands: Peaker plants operating for a larger percentage of the time, adding renewable capacity, load shifting to low demand times, etcetera. These are not insurmountable problems. We know how to add grid capacity. Just a question of doing it. The grid naturally requires constant expansion anyhow due to population growth and new construction. It’s a matter of increasing the natural pace of expansion…and what a great opportunity for making the upgrades in the process like distributed energy supply.

[@aaronbounds1336]

6:28: impressive. If you folks can figure out an F150 Lightning, you’re going to be just fine. I figured out a first generation Nissan LEAF for five years before getting my Tesla. The Tesla is more convenient than any car I have ever owned. The infrastructure for electricity is largely built out in America already. Way more ahead of the game as compared to when gas cars were first coming on the scene with their need for roads, paved roads, and zero gas station infrastructure. That didn’t stop us though and we made it work. The same will be true for electrification of many things including transportation. Most of the infrastructure is already there, just needs that little bit at the end to get into the machines.

[@leerizer]

China has electeic dump truck use by mining industry. Dump truck travelling uphill with no load by using electric supplied by battery. When travelling downhill with full load regenerative system recharge the battery. In some scenario that dump truck doesnt need to recharge at all as regenerated power is sufficient to keep it working continuously

[@jimdiet8534]

I can see this being used for small projects or indoor work. The guys who use their skids for plowing need to stick with Diesel. I say this because of the run time needed.

[@chrishaberbosch1029]

Bigger machines bigger batteries longer run time.

[@kylekleman]

Good video! It does seem like your perspective changed. It’s a shame so many people can’t get past their initial knee jerk reactions to see the benefits!

[@RealLifePrblemSolver]

So you mean to tell me that even if the ac and radio is on it’s not pulling power unless the joysticks move.

[@alphonsotate2982]

The air and radio takes power from the battery

[@aaronbounds1336]

I caught that too. That was probably a misstatement. Not using the heavy load stuff like tracks or lifting, etcetera. HVAC and screens do use power, but very little as compared to drive and lifting motors. The volume to HVAC in a small unit like that is much smaller than a car, and it’s not that much of a draw in a car compared to the drive motor(s) either.

[@idesignstuff]

It's a 'parasitic load' but a tiny fraction of the working efforts. My EV aircon makes about a 5 mile per charge difference.

[@shirolee]

This is pretty interesting and awesome.

[@aaronbounds1336]

“High-mileage” will have quite the different meaning soon. Tesla is currently bench testing cells with nearly 20K cycles on them. Currently, the two dominant Tesla chemistries will last between 400K and 1.2 million miles before they start to degrade significantly. Takes a long time to get to 400K miles at 12K miles/year (about 30+). Probably not going to keep a car for that long.

[@MrHeHim]

Bob-cat 😁

[@alphonsotate2982]

Fast charging wears out battery's faster and shortens the life of them slow 110 charging is the best for your battery's life