{"id":82728,"date":"2025-06-02T21:26:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82728"},"modified":"2025-06-02T21:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T01:26:36","slug":"e-quipment-highlight-zquip-heavy-equipment-battery-swap-demo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=82728","title":{"rendered":"E-quipment highlight: ZQUIP heavy equipment battery swap demo [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ZQUIP is working hard to bring more smart, efficient, modular power solutions to commercial job sites everywhere \u2013\u00a0and at the core of their vision for the future is battery-swap technology. You can see just how easy it is make that happen here.<\/p>\n

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MOOG Construction\u2019s energy skunkworks\u00a0ZQUIP made headlines last year<\/a>\u00a0by bringing the cordless power tool battery model to the world of industrial-grade heavy equipment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 700V ZQUIP Energy Modules are at the core of this innovation, said Chris LaFleur, managing director for QUIP. \u201cZQUIP modules are interchangeable across any machine we convert regardless of size, type, or manufacturer, and will enable a level of serviceability, runtime, and value that is far greater than current battery solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s bauma<\/a> equipment show in Munich, Germany, however, ZQUIP followed up that headline by making it even easier for job sites to make every kilowatt count by enabling them to switch from diesel power<\/a>, to electric, and back again, on the same machine, on the job site.<\/p>\n

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Most machines on most sites sit idle most of the time, but converting all those machines to battery electric power means that megawatts<\/em> of battery capacity are being wasted. By utilizing swappable batteries, job sites can do what technicians and contractors have been doing for years with power tools: quickly get the energy they need to the tool they need when they need it<\/a>, without the need to have a dedicated battery for every tool.<\/p>\n

If you need to be able to run the machine non-stop and don\u2019t have a reliable way to recharge your batteries quickly enough, a 140 kW diesel generator is built into a package the same size and shape as the batteries. In fact, if you look closely at the CASE excavator below (on the right), the \u201cbattery\u201d on the right is, in fact, a diesel Energy Module.<\/p>\n

The demo video, below, shows a pair of CASE<\/a>-based electric excavators<\/a> \u2013\u00a0one wheeled<\/a>, one tracked \u2013\u00a0operating on ZQUIP\u2019s Energy Modules. It takes less than two minutes to remove one battery, and presumably about the same time to swap another one in, for a 5 (ish) minute swap.<\/p>\n

Even if you call it ten, by eliminating the need to get the entire machine up and out for charging (or for service, if there\u2019s an issue with the battery\/controllers), the ZQUIP battery swap construction equipment solution seems like a good one.<\/p>\n

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