Electric Develon Double-Act

Sweden’s first fully electric wheeled excavator when into service late last year for Vabeko AB and has more recently been joined by a second machine.

Photo: The first DX165W Electric "Elsa" in the Maskinia workshops awaiting partial wrapping.

Scandinavians are always leading the way in excavation technology, and in some parts, Norway in particular, they have really embraced electrification as the way to go emission free power source.

The company’s first Develon DX165W Electric, supplied by local dealers Maskinia, was nicknamed “Elsa” by the Vabeko team and as you would expect in Sweden, is fitted with the latest 3^rd generation Engcon tiltrotator. “Elsa” has been working on the large Persikan project in the Swedish capital of Stockholm as part of a collaboration with main contractor PEAB.

The 17-tonne mobile excavator has proven to be hugely successful and efficient in its operation, and is said to be capable of operating up to 12-hours from a single charge depending on usage, while having no impact on the environment in such an urban jobsite location.

It was always the plan to deploy two of these excavators on this project, and most recently the second unit has been deployed, this second machine has been named as “Elvis” and has joined its sister machine out on site in Central Stockholm.

You can find out more in the video produced by Engcon, which features “Elsa” below, commentary is in Swedish, but with English subtitles.