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| Con Edison announces the development of an electric bucket cart |
US energy company Con Edison announced that it has partnered with Canadian manufacturers Lion Electric and Posi-Plus to develop the first fully electric bucket truck in the United States and to bring an emissions-free truck to the market next year.
An electrical engineering mark, the rig is now the latest heavy-duty vehicle that has undergone an electrical revamp.
If Con Edison purchased an electric truck in early 2022, it would be the first electric truck on US roads, Con Edison said in a press release. The company controls the truck and then rotates it to assemble the fleet.
Lion Electric, a manufacturer of high-performance electric vehicles, is collaborating with Posi-Plus to build the trucks. Lion supplies pneumatic equipment operators and Lion8 fully electric chassis, while Posi-Plus implements shovel trucks and cranes.
The zero-emissions truck delivers the ability to lift workers and equipment up to 60 feet.
Bottle wagons are important tools for building and maintaining power grids and will become even more important in the future.
Con Edison is one of the largest energy companies in the United States and currently serves the entire New York area. The company will be two hundred years old in 2023.
Con Edison has more than 300 forklift trucks. If the electric truck makes a successful start, its introduction could transform this huge industry.
This 8-step electric shovel wagon can go about 130 miles on a single charge.
Additionally, the truck can charge the battery in around eight hours using two Level II chargers.
"It is more difficult to electrify medium and heavy trucks than cars," CEO of Con Edison said in a statement, but purchasing the first fully electric bucket truck shows that the market is real and accelerating.
"Although the range was small at first, this announcement represents an important step for Edison to electrify the fleet," he added.
Electric trucks, electric school buses and even many 18-wheel electric vehicles have appeared, but there is no electric lift truck commonly known as a shovel truck.