Simply weeks after its official unveiling, CNH inaugurated a brand new manufacturing line for the corporate’s first-ever, all-electric compact wheel loader. The brand new line will produce the machines for worldwide markets beneath each the CASE (C) and New Holland (NH) manufacturers.
The brand new line is a part of CNH’s present Lecce, Italy plant, which occupies 600,000 sq. meters of area and (now) homes 7 product strains for 203 fashions and 4896 completely different configurations of wheel loaders, compact wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, telehandlers, and motor graders.
The brand new CASE and New Holland electrical loaders be a part of two mini electrical excavators produced in Cesena within the firm’s quickly rising BEV lineup – which is important to satisfy the demand for different powertrains that’s being pushed by Europe’s rising record of “low-emission zones” and more and more strict noise laws. Different new necessities from agriculture sectors and livestock farming are additionally driving CNH to spend money on new ZEVs.
“This industrial advanced has lengthy been a reference level for a lot of corporations in Salento, which profit from the allied industries linked to manufacturing and can also be an necessary pole when it comes to employment,” says Alessandro Delli Noci, Councillor for Financial Improvement of the Area Puglia (the place the Lecce plant is situated). “We’re completely satisfied that CNH continues to imagine and make investments on this necessary actuality with merchandise and initiatives of excessive technological content material.”
CASE confirmed the brand new electrical wheel loader at main worldwide commerce gala’s corresponding to ConEXPO in Las Vegas, Agritechnica in Hanover, and a full-on “UK Roadshow” earlier this 12 months, the place it claimed 4-6 hours of steady use from the 23 kWh battery. In a single day recharging may be completed with the usual L2 on-board charger or in lower than 1 hour on a DCFC, “thus enabling steady use all through the working day,” in keeping with CNH.
Electrek’s Take
Regardless of early criticism from the BEV absolutists for its push to develop methane-based combustion engines and gas cells, CNH has learn the tea leaves accurately and begun taking electrical autos critically. Which is an efficient factor, as a result of there’s a building increase in all places.
Manufacturing volumes have grown exponentially, marking an 88% improve between 2020 and 2022 and an extra 14% in 2023, the 12 months that recorded the best variety of machines produced since its basis. The brand new line for electrical equipment is a part of a €13 million funding (a part of the Converto challenge) that was co-financed by the Area of Puglia. That funding enabled the set up of a brand new coating plant and a brand new plasma chopping machine, which is able to service the brand new electrical wheel loaders.
CNH has additionally invested within the building of recent rooms for testing electrified autos, making certain that clients can proceed working in excessive weather conditions (-50° to +50° C).
SOURCE | IMAGES: CNH.
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