Caterpillar goes all in on EVs at CES

Off-road vehicles may turn out to be one of 2024’s top EV stories. The intrinsic advantages of EVs-silence, lack of local emissions, high torque-make them great choices for applications from construction to agriculture to mining.
One off-road OEM exhibiting EVs at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show is Caterpillar. The iconic yellow-machine maker’s entire booth at CES is focused on electrification-the company showed Charged the 301.9 mini-excavator and the gigantic R1700 underground mining loader, which is built on a 715-volt architecture and sports a 213 kWh battery pack.
Caterpillar offers EVs both large and small, and to keep them charged, the company offers a range of portable charging solutions to match. The MEC009 is a DC charger that one person can carry. At the other end of the spectrum, the MEC500 charger requires a crane to move around-Caterpillar’s largest charger offers 500 kW of charging power at up to 700 amps. Two of these can be hooked up to the R1700’s gigantic battery to charge it from 10% to 100% in 18 minutes.

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Wow, amazing machinery and engineering from CAT

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