{"id":83435,"date":"2025-08-31T16:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83435"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T20:36:42","slug":"e-quipment-highlight-komatsu-pc20e-6-electric-mini-excavator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=83435","title":{"rendered":"E-quipment highlight: Komatsu PC20E-6 electric mini excavator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Japanese equipment giant Komatsu has added a not-so-giant electric excavator<\/a> to its growing lineup of battery-powered construction equipment. The new Komatsu PC20E-6 electric mini excavator promises a full day of work from a single charge.<\/p>\n

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Komatsu says the design of its latest mini excavator was informed by data sourced from more than 40,000 working days of comparably-sized diesel excavators. The company found that, in 90% of its global customers\u2019 mini excavator deployments, these vehicles are in active use for less than 3.5 hours per day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis defined the target for the required, reliable working time with the excavator,\u201d reads the Komatsu web copy. \u201cThis result makes it possible for Komatsu to offer an attractively priced machine with a performance that exactly matches the requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keeping costs down are relatively conservative specs. Komatsu chose to power the PC20E-6 with a 23.2 kWh battery pack sending electrons to an 11 kW (~15 hp), high-torque electric motors. Not exactly super impressive on paper, but the machine has an operating weight of 2,190 kg and enough juice for up to four (4) hours of continuous operation.<\/p>\n

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More than enough, in other words, to have completed 90% of of those 40,000 work days the company analyzed.<\/p>\n

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PC20E-6 electric mini excavator; via Komatsu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If, for some reason, that four hours\u2019 runtime isn\u2019t enough, an on-board charging option for 230V and 3kW charging power compatible with various plug adapters is standard, with an external DC quick charger for 400V and 12 kW charging as optional<\/a>. In either case, it won\u2019t be long before the machine is back at work.<\/p>\n

To help the later adopters sleep well about their battery-powered investments, the PC20E-6 ships with Komatsu\u2019s E-Support maintenance program, which includes free scheduled maintenance by a Komatsu-trained technician, a 3 year\/2,000 hour warranty on the machine, plus a 5 year\/10,000 hour warranty on the electric driveline. The company says the battery should last 10 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Komatsu E-Support customer program is included free of charge with every market-ready electric mini excavator and offers exclusive machine support,\u201d said Emanuele Viel, Group Manager Utility at Komatsu Europe. \u201cThe bottom line is that the risk for the end customer is significantly reduced, especially when it comes to exploring the electrification advances in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Komatsu hasn\u2019t released official pricing quite yet, but has revealed that the P20E-6 will begin series production this October.<\/p>\n

SOURCE | IMAGES<\/strong>: Komatsu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Japanese equipment giant Komatsu has added a not-so-giant electric excavator to its growing lineup of battery-powered construction equipment. The new Komatsu PC20E-6 electric mini excavator promises a full day of work from a single charge. Komatsu says the design of its latest mini excavator was informed by data sourced from more than 40,000 working days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}