CAT Is Going EV! Full Tour Of 500kW+ Chargers, Construction / Mining Equipment, & Battery Storage 

I love a person who knows what they're selling. I can't tell you how many times I went to an event and the salespeople were just repeating what was on the sign.

you need more off-highway electrification content. This was great!

This was super great! John was knowledgeable and overall a super great guy who is in the right place.

Wow this guy is a great communicator and professional and knowledgeable salesman. Every possible negative was dealt with a professional and reasonable touch. With people like him I'm confident that CAT will grow as things change. Great stuff CAT!

John was amazing! So much knowledge and he can present it so elloquently.

This was great! You can understand that Cat had a head start with using large electric motors in their mining trucks, but this demonstrates that they didn’t stop with diesel power. Good show, Kyle/Alyssa! Congrats on 200k subs!

Definitely go to the Cat proving ground. John is a great communicator.

Excellent report. John sure knows his EV stuff. Had no idea CAT was doing any of this. Thanks!

Yes, please do more of this content. This is awesome.

This video was great, thanks for showing us some of the less seen battery technologies out there! Love what CAT is doing, and John was so much fun to listen to, I could listen to him explain these systems for hours. Thanks much!

Fantastic!!! Would love to see more content with this gentleman, CAT, and heavy equipment!!

In other words, the diesel machines run all day but are only operating for half that time, so 4-6 operational hours does the job. This sort of pragmatic and practical analysis is how many businesses are assessing electrification I imagine. Brilliant

Great Job Kyle. As CAT engineer I was so happy to see some solid CAT content on the channel! We have a lot going on in the electrification space.

Excellent interview with John on the CAT products in electrification and love it. We need more of this. Look at the size of the 64Kwh battery pack? That can easily be used in conjunction with an inverter to power your home for days with a nice form factor. Thanks Kyle for sharing this.

Great show. Thought I would share a story that is related and involving giant EV equipment from Europe that I saw about a year ago. There is a mining operation in Switzerland which uses the biggest earth mover in the world (at that time at least) that will only need to be charged once and will work like the perpetual motion machine. They Charged it up at the base of a mountain, and drove it up empty to be loaded with rock or marble at the top. The earth mover then brings the load down the mountain to be unloaded and process or loaded to trucks. The regeneration breaking coming down is more that the energy needed to go back up the mountain empty, and thus on one charge, the equipment will continue to work without further charging. Reminds me of my Dad's story of walking uphill in the snow to school in the snow and uphill home. Only this one is true. Take care and keep the information coming. Thanks

The Peoria Proving Grounds is just about an hour down the road from the Rivian factory in Normal. They also have one in Tucson - probably doing testing for these in both places :)

One of the best if not the best presentation/ interview you’ve done, Kyle.

Used to work for CAT and I remember the talkings of this process starting around 2017. Pretty cool to see it finally happening. Super interesting video, thanks

I think a video of all that stuff in action would be really cool, and if you can get a ride in one of those mining trucks the size of a cathedral that would be double points.

Great video, love to see coverage of these EV adjacent areas including heavy duty trucking!

This is was awesome! Thanks John for the wonderful showings and I would definitely like to see more of this

Long time listener, first time caller!😂 I get it, John, because I'm an old man too. I don't know that Kyle got it.

This was really interesting and I'd love to see more videos and info on what CAT and others are doing including demo videos of the equipment running.

Go CAT!!! Yes to more CAT content!!!

Really cool to see what's going on with the construction/earth-moving side of things. Thanks to John and Out of Spec!

A machine you have to add many tons of counterweights to anyway was basically the perfect use case for battery power, it's amazing it took this long.

I'd definitely love to see you look at Cat's stuff yearly to keep up with things we don't normally see. Also go out on a job site with an actual customer without Cat over your shoulder.

Never gonna need these myself, but would be interesting to see in action!

I own & operate a Terex PT50 (equivalent to a ASV RC50) compact skid steer loader, and it would be a FAR superior machine if it were battery electric. I'm currently burning 6 litres of diesel per hour in my Terex and it's very noisy in the cab. An electric motor driving each track would deliver a higher travel speed and greater torque, so I could drive this machine up slopes with a fully loaded bucket (all up around 4 tonnes) with no reduction in speed. Plus it would be quiet. I want one tomorrow!

Looking at usage profiles / analytics to help determine your engineering choices. I love it when companies to this, rather than saying "this is the way we've always done things! Our machines must make big 'vroom-vroom noises' ". Thumbs up for CAT for that bit alone. 👍 Edit: excellent interview and subscribed because of this. Also my compliments to John. This is really the kind of knowledgable person you would want in your company for this kind of work. 10/10 would buy from him and CAT if I had a mining or construction business. 😆

This was your sexiest episode to date. I love large mining equipment due to a longtime mining connection. Super excited to see this stuff going battery-electric so we don't have to haul those long heavy electric cables around. For those not in the know, in many mines electric equipment is used for various reasons, and today those trail a huge cable. Looking forward to seeing more of this content!

This is quite remarkable. The entire presentation was done in a single recording. Top notch!

This is cool A lot of the time on a job site they will have a Spider Box which is Power Distribution Box: 120/240V AC, 30 A Amps, L14-30P, (4) L5-20R GFCI, 3 Poles, 4 Wires so they could easily hook up a portable charger to it with the appropriate cable adapters

This has got to be the best electrification content I’ve seen in ten years!

John was awesome, super exciteable and knowledageble, I liked seeing the other CAT employees at the end like "should we intervene?" and the other one was like "nah, let him cook, he's got this"

This is really fascinating. Thank you Kyle for covering non car EV content, hope to see more! Maybe look into electric Tractors, also v cool!

Great content Kyle ! Greetings from Belgium.

John was great. Personable and informative.

Wow . . . Cats really put forth the Right Guy to present their Product Lineup. Nice to see Cat's Rep has a real handle on the Tech going on at his company. Super Presentation!

CCS ( ISO15118 ) can be implemented for lower voltage(some chargers even do)! Even with this connector.

Fantastic video, the electrification of mining is such an important area that needs to be covered. It is certainly a critical cog in the EV and renewable wheel and one that the naysayers keep throwing in our faces.

Wow, very insightful video. John was great at explaining everything.

Solid . 🎉thank you for this it was very eye opening

Most of the small equipment will never get used for actual work more than 6 hours a day. From a maintenance cost perspective alone it makes a whole lot of sense to have electric over a diesel.

Yo, I need that thing in my backyard!!!

Love this content! More off-highway electrification videos pleaaaaaase!

Thanks for a view on this part of transformation to an electric powered future.

This was great! CAT has always been pretty forward thinking and it's awesome to see they are going all in on electric.

Congratulations to CAT, a great company doing great things. Can't wait to see some big BEVs at the Proving Ground😃

Great presentation! I would like to see these machines in action, and get real-world comments from the workers to see its benefits.

Those are great concepts. thanks for sharing. one could even realize a true of grid construction. run it via solar and a big buffer battery. or if the AC connection is weak. trickle charge it over night, when no one is working and you are set for the day. thanks

I would love to see some of these machines in action. Thanks for another great video!

Great video, thank you. Wonder how they deal with shock and vibration for the electronic assemblies, heard mining equipment has vibration that exceeds MIL STD 810H.

Yes, more of this. For two reasons. 1) the sustainable energy transition is coming to construction and mining equipment too; and until quality EV tech channels start following & communicating advancements in these markets specifically, your EV automotive expertise will really do a great job to initiate coverage. 2) wrt SpaceX Mars missions & planetary explorations-which Starship is going to enable-neither Tesla nor SpaceX has not had the time/focus to develop these EV alternatives that will be required. No diesel or gasoline on Mars. Caterpillar already has the mining/excavating equipment experience! With Cat moving into EV tech now, CatEV equipment become instant starting points (with telerobotic or autonomous control, and non-air-cooled heating/cooling solutions) for the sorts of equipment that will be needed right away to operate in the low-pressure environment of Mars to support SpaceX early missions.

Great! Excellent conversation there.

Great video !!

Cool to see what other industries are doing in electrification.

Excellent interview. More please!

Cool to see these go electric. Less exhaust in the work area is always good.

Love it. Definitely give me more.

That's awesome!! And of course we want to see this stuff in action! See if CAT can arrange something with you and a customer :)

Any discussion on marine packages? I have a 72ft commercial boat and would love to swap out the old 3412 to some sort of hybrid system.

This was fantastic. CAT is doing some incredible stuff.

11:50: There is a standard covering 50 to 1000V, it's called CHAdeMO. The plug also supports up to 400A. CCS lowest voltage is 150V.

Can the 301.9 run (at least in stationary mode [hydraulics, but no tracks/traversing] with an extension cord attached so that the battery is being charged while doing work?

Great job K, when you said CAT is leading the way in electric equipment. I wondered about your due diligence on that comment or did you shoot from the hip like "brandon" did. This guy is the best darn speaker ive ever heard.

Amazing! CAT has always been the best..and still the best going forward.

Great presentation.

This was awesome!

Yes this is Awesome! I love all those products, you are awesome!

Retired electrican and ran great CAT gen sets up to 2,000 KW. Nobody is supplying accurate running times for EV when its zero degree F outside and you have to provide heat & a defroster for the driver. Somebody did a U tube vidio on a EV truck pulling his maximum load of 11,000 #'s during cold weather and could not travel even 50% of rated battery distance without towing a load. Great ideal having air cooled on the 700 amp plug & cable.

Great camera work

Diesel electric has been around for decades. It's not hard to imagine the leap it will take to get to replacing the diesel with electric in some industries. Excellent interview.

I am fairly certain there are some missing details about mining. I remember visiting the coal mine exhibit in the Chicago museum and mines in California and a lot of equipment underground was running off AC power. They just drug the power cables around behind the machines, of course the machines didn’t drive very much, mostly just pushing forward through the rock. Also the huge outdoor strip mining machines were AC powered. What is novel is a battery.

an amazing video eye opening

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I can see this being good for mining, this can also eliminate the fumes that those workers are breathing in those mines from the diesel engines! Very cool indeed!

A really interesting video, do you know if CAT to batteries and motors for marine projects

Can you pls tell John they need. to fix their www. I can't find a way to get a list of electric excavators. Do they only have the one model???

great video

Wow excellent content plz more like this

Well done!

Great job J.T.!!

The mini excavator looks like it has an old arcade coin acceptor on the side. Pay as you go.

Funny thing - I was just looking at what it would take to migrate a CAT299D3 track-skidsteer with a blown engine to electric (umbilical). Replacing the 110HP diesel with a 100HP 3-phase 600VAC inverter duty motor, inverter, and step down transformer, cable reel, and step-up transformer (23kV - to 600V)... would cost about as much as a new machine. but would also work for other machines in the same basic power range (like a Cat317 excavator, etc...) Why 23kV? Transmission (umbilical) cable weight versus length - figuring a 100kW end of wire load, 600VAC would need 166A of transmission, 23kV only needs 4.5A of transmission (much smaller gauge cable like 14AWG, about 3/4" diameter, so more length on a reel). One complication is that with an umbilical is you either need to follow it back through a work site, or be able to rewind it and manully move it around obstacles (which if one used an intermediate cable closer to the work area, could mean 1-mile of working range). The former is easy with GPS navigation on-board, the latter easy with a 12-48V spool motor running from an on-board battery.

Wonderful review, electric heavy equipment is well on its way. :)

Thanks. Deere, Volvo & Case have EV heavy equipment also. And others that I’m not thinking of. It’s a really interesting business segment.

LOVE this. The average power consumption of some machines isn't that high. However....some construction machines have an average output of >500kW.

Love the analogy to the EV space 10 years ago. Will be interesting to see some of these machines re-built from the ground up as a full "EV Rethink". Also what is the min DC voltage for NACS?

Super interesting.

The last time I heard this amount of hormonal enthusiasm, I was at a girl's grade-school volley ball game. Have at it teeners, just keep the CAT V-16 diesel genset handy to produce all of those electron gulping EVs

This has been great. It would be an excellent continuation of our learning about CATs electric expertise to explore their world deeper. Yes, go to the proving grounds and play "TONKA" in the sandbox and take them up on all their offers for further learning. TOTALLY

Interesting stuff, I would love to know more about the real-world economics once they have systems out in the field. The limited use of standard charging connections is disturbing, but they may be able to move to NACS or MCS connections as they get more experience.

WoW Kyle great video & yes on the proving grounds tour. Any chance on a Out of Spec Big Boy Toy Channel?

Awesome!

The thing I always wanna see is the tethered machines, if you have utility connection these machines make all the sense in the world

This integration of Battery Electric Equipment requires more time. First time in a while I've felt raced watching an Out of Spec vid. Looks like it's time for a new channel Kyle. Also you could include Battery Energy Storage Systems, please? Consider visiting Edison Motors in BC.

Interesting , Thank You . A fine example of developing the Equipment that Owners and Operators want and need. PLEASE Remember that EVEY thing MUST be Repairable in the FIELD , ALL PARTS MUST be avalble.

For Quebec province who nationalized hydro energy, that will be interesting to lower cost of operations and reduce sell costs of raw mining materials.

Keep it up CAT. I think Battery Swapping would overcome the production time hurdles.