Caterpillar: Automation, technology and electrification
The company exhibited its Next-Gen Cat machines offering functions such as Grade, Payload, Detect and Command that maximize production, reduce costs and improve safety; the world's first high-drive electric drive dozer, the D6 XE; offering up to 35 percent better fuel efficiency than its D6T predecessor; a concept 906 fully electric zero-emission compact wheel loader powered by a lithium-ion battery with an electric drivetrain; and the 988K XE - Caterpillar's first diesel/electric-drive wheel loader which dramatically improves fuel efficiency and productivity.
Other displays included 8 new Cat Next-Gen mini hydraulic excavator models designed to provide exceptional performance, versatility, affordability, safety, and operator convenience with joystick steering (Stick Steer) for 1-to-10-ton class machines; and three new excavators, including the 330 and 336, equipped with integrated Cat technology that can increase operating efficiency up to 45 percent, compared with conventional grading operations, and can enhance fuel efficiency by as much as 20 percent, compared with its predecessor models.
Caterpillar offers customers a choice of services that best fit their individual needs and budgets. Services range from new aftermarket products to service agreements, and full-fleet tracking through the new Cat App, the industry's first mobile app designed to track critical machine operating data from the field.
Published on:
26 April 2019
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