{"id":1404,"date":"2018-03-26T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2018-03-26T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:07:26","slug":"jcb-sparks-huge-interest-with-its-first-ever-electric-digger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/2018\/03\/jcb-sparks-huge-interest-with-its-first-ever-electric-digger\/","title":{"rendered":"JCB sparks huge interest with it&#8217;s first ever Electric Digger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill\\ Sans\\ MT; font-size: medium;\">JCB has developed its first ever electric digger in response to customer demands for a zero emissions machine which can work indoors, underground and close to people in urban areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill\\ Sans\\ MT; font-size: medium;\">The 1.9 tonne mini excavator can be charged by simply plugging it into a standard 230 volt domestic electricity supply. Once fully charged, it is ready to put in a full normal working day on the building site \u2013 digging with the same speed and power as its diesel counterpart. \u00a0Super-fast charging will also be available at launch, slashing the charging time in half. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill\\ Sans\\ MT; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1405 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/openpublicdocument.do2_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/openpublicdocument.do2_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/openpublicdocument.do2_-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>The innovative product goes on sale at the end of year after being developed in secret at the company\u2019s Staffordshire HQ. Its development has been spearheaded by company Chairman Lord Bamford who today heralded its arrival as a \u201creal breakthrough\u201d for the construction sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill\\ Sans\\ MT; font-size: medium;\">Lord Bamford said: \u201cJCB has been at the forefront of developing innovative, low emission diesel powered construction equipment for decades. In fact, thanks to our clean diesel technology, typical JCB machines will be pretty close to zero emissions by next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill\\ Sans\\ MT; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u201cHowever with urbanisation, machines are operating more closely to people as well as digging underground, indoors, near hospitals and in food production environments. As a result, there is a new zero emissions sector emerging and it\u2019s emerging very quickly. It\u2019s for this reason we have put ourselves at the forefront of alternative power technologies and developed the first ever electric JCB digger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill\\ Sans\\ MT; font-size: medium;\">The machine \u2013 known as the 19C-1 E-Tec &#8211; will not only deliver zero emissions, it will also be the quietest in the JCB range. This means contractors can work after normal hours in urban streets, around hospitals and close to schools without disturbing people. The machine also has a retractable undercarriage to enable it to negotiate tight spaces. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Gill\\ Sans\\ MT; font-size: medium;\">The electric excavator has an electric motor and three advanced lithium-ion battery packs, to deliver a full energy capacity of 15kWh. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JCB has developed its first ever electric digger in response to customer demands for a zero emissions machine which can <\/p>\n<a class=\"btn-sub-green l-blog-post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/2018\/03\/jcb-sparks-huge-interest-with-its-first-ever-electric-digger\/\" title=\"Read more\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}