I tested a 55,000-pound electric excavator. New ways to power off-road machines, which mostly run on diesel, could cut about 3 percent of U.S. carbon emissions.
I tested a 55,000-pound electric excavator. New ways to power off-road machines, which mostly run on diesel, could cut about 3 percent of U.S. carbon emissions.
One thing that is beneficial is efficiency of internal combustion engines tends to scale with size.
One met generator is more efficient that smaller engines on each vehicle.
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Also, a lot of small equipment isn’t being used all day. You might dig a trench, work in it all day, then fire the machine back up to fill the trench.