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Volvo CE
Pushes Alt
Power with Its
LX2 Compact
Wheel Loader
and EX2
Mini Ex
Engineers at Volvo Con-
struction Equipment are
constantly pushing the en-
velope. This year, Volvo CE
pushed those concepts into
the compact realm. The
EX2 fully-electric compact
excavator prototype was
highlighted at Intermat in
April (a French construction
trade fair). In September, at
the Volvo Group Innova-
tion Summit, the company
announced the LX2 electric
compact wheel loader con-
cept vehicle. Both units of-
fer zero emissions, higher
efficiency, lower noise lev-
els and reduced total cost
of ownership. Both replaced
the combustion engine with
lithium ion batteries, which
store enough electric ener-
gy to operate each unit for
eight hours in intense appli-
cations like digging. These
prototypes are not available
to the public, but their tech-
nology will hopefully help
spearhead the commercial
realities of electric units in
the near future. We can't do
the design of these models
much justice in this little
paragraph, so go visit
vol-
voce.com
for more info.
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