LIKE if you think all machinery should be electric & SHARE if you'd like to give this a go! 'Bobby the Builder' is back and this time he means business, with a fully electric Kovaco Elise 900 Skid Steer Loader! This is the first 100% electric skid steer loader to come into production and Robert has managed to get it into his garden to help with removing some 20 year old chicken wire and rubble. As it is narrow, low and carbon neutral, this electric skid steer is fit both inside and outside of buildings and can even be operated remotely. It's safe to say Robert is quite taken with this big bit of electric machinery, but what will Mrs L say when she sees the state of the garden?? Become a Patreon: www.patreon.com/fullychargedshow Become a RU-vid member: use JOIN button above Subscribe to Fully Charged & the Fully Charged PLUS channels Buy the Fully Charged Guide to Electric Vehicles & Clean Energy : buff.ly/2GybGt0 Browse the Fully Charged store: shop.fullycharged.show/ Visit our LIVE exhibitions in the UK, USA & Europe: FullyCharged.Show/events Subscribe for episode alerts and the Fully Charged newsletter: fullycharged.show/zap-sign-up/ Visit: FullyCharged.Show Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/fullychargedshw Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/fullychargedshow *Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:05 Bobby the Builder is back 1:26 Big, chunky bit of kit! 2:15 World first 2:50 Inside and outside 3:14 Battery options 4:04 Useful for many industries 4:35 Remote controlled 5:27 Self-levelling bucket! 6:14 Bye, bye chicken wire 7:10 Phone operated 7:49 Oh so quiet 8:36 A right old mess 9:24 Very powerful 10:16 Subscribe, support, join
I grew up farming and by the time I was in my mid twenties I had already damaged my ears from spending hours and hours operating loud smelly diesel skid steers. I use to dream about electric tractors when working and this is the one I spent the most time in using it to clean barns, feed cows, and do almost everything else on the farm. This is everything I ever wanted and I’m so happy to see it’s finally real!
I had the same thing happened to me on farms. Years and years of load machinery has left me industrially deaf. It's great to finally see these machines. I think it would be so easy to have a tellyhandler and the feed out tractor electric
mate i feel your pain. i used to work with a skid in a cow barn from time to time. for people that have never used one of these things in an enclosed space. well they just cant get that lovely feeling when you get to shutdown and crawl out the cab.
@@kreizmann2943 yep and when someone comes up with stuff that protects the hole body i'll be the first to get it. sadly hearing protection only works properly on sound coming down the ear canal. it dose not protect from sound absorbed though the scull that directly vibrates the anvil and other small bones of the interior ear.
I agree, but I have to say, I hope that in the setting of this machine, there is a setting to remove that country-sounding music... after 5 to 8 hours of hearing that same thing, I would go bonkers!
Robert! Love your videos. About 2 years or so ago, you did a video on an electric back-hoe thingy that you used to dig the trench for you upgraded 3-phase cableing. Have you any intention to go back to that company and find out how sales are going and any upgrades they may or may not have had to do to it?
This would be great, I asked a lot of people about them and they all say they won't use them as they don't last long on-site, would be great to see if there is an uptake in sales showing a growing trend.
That is a really cool digger! I hope the rubbish will be properly sorted for recycling ♻️ (metals, soil & compost, plastics, etc). Love the show in all forms (video and podcast).
Having been born and raised on a ranch in the San Joaquin Valley in California USA, I had the opportunity to drive my father's truck into a bucket on the front of a dredger that cut the San Louis Canal that takes water to Los Angeles, California in the southern part of the State of California. However, that thing was a giant and could hold perhaps 10-15 pickup trucks and pumped diesel smoke by the ton into the air. I drive a Tesla Model 3 and I have Solar on the roof of my house and just loved watching you attempt to clean out your back yard with the FIRST BATTERY ELECTRIC Remote Controlled Electric Skid Steer Machine which was REALLY EXCITING TO SEE. BRAVO ! True Academy Award Material.
I grew up in the construction industry operating heavy equipment since I was 12. Ran away from it to get a college degree and join the corporate world. Now I want to go back to it!!! Amazing to see the evolution. Desperately needed.
Yes! Now we’re talking. Just spent an afternoon working with and around a diesel skid steer, loud, and who knows what it did to my lungs. This makes a big difference 😃
Making me wanna be a farmer! 😃 Lovely to see, 5hrs would do quite a fantastic job. I love that it's remote-controllable, imagine having loads of fully electric machinery off on some distant planet that could be getting loads of work done. 1 Operator, full-on terraforming projects
4:50 Remote control? This electric skid steer loader reminds me of episode 1 of Thunderbirds when they tried to land the Fireflash supersonic jet liner onto remote controlled elevator cars!
These are a cracking piece of kit! we have taken on the distribution for Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and south yorkshire, and will have a demo machine available for test from the end of November
Agricultural equipment is a great place to have electrical equipment. Farm and land owners are the sort of people who would have the space and the knowhow to have solar/window power etc. Given that they are only travelling around on their own farm, range is less likely to be a giant issue as well.
I was going to complain about Robert making noises while driving but the truth is, I'd be doing exactly the same thing. I'm so jealous that he gets to drive that.
When Mrs L did come back and start screaming about the state of the lawn, did you run outside and join her and then shout, "AND THEY'VE STOLEN OUR RUBBISH!"
I have driven and used a small electric loader inside a hall. good and strong machine😊 the only thing i did not like was i had to have 2 eletric machines to do the work of a diesel machine. could only run 4 hours on a single charge. but aside from that.fantastic machine no noise and a lot of power👍😊
A skidsteer lends itself to electrification really well as it's entirely run on hydraulics. One with a diesel engine just powers a hydraulic pump, so the electric motor does that instead. These are widely used inside big buildings & in construction, so one with no diesel smoke would be brilliant.
Excellent stuff. Honestly, I enjoy these type of episodes already more than the next BEV car review. Good thing I guess, cars reviews are getting to be the 'norm', and we start to see new applications a lot more. Keep up the jolly good stuff.
What an incredible machine, of all things being electric I did not expect this already in 2020. Amazing video Robert, without your channel I would never of known this existed. This machine has so so many uses it's incredible, from landscaping to general building work. Silent and powerful. I hope in the future they can do different attachments such as post hole diggers etc. Amazing video!!!
I can't help but imagine that while Bobby is doing this having fun Judy is watching from the kitchen window simultaneously happy that the rubbish it gone, but horrified by the state of the lawn.
Can't tell if he is purposefully slow at lifting the boom or dumping the bucket, or if it's the machine... Because vs a bobcat, it looks super slow... Hundred 100% love the idea though!
Kovaco is based in Slovakia. Lots of EV related business is happening there. Based on information on their website, the battery is old fashioned lead acid. The size is modest @ 96V, 240 Ah. So, 24 kWh.
Looks like what where I grew we would call a Bobcat, maybe not Bobcat name but just what people would call it. Bobby the builder....can he fix it! Yes he can! :)
That's a really nice machine, can see loads of people going for that - no more cold starting rubbish when you want to get the silage out in a hurry! BTW you could have done with a silage grab for that work.
Only + is it's can be considered for places where noisepollution is not allowed. Most constuctionplans have nois pollution written into it. The remote contol wai is a right way to go. It'll prevent lots of spinal injuries.
I can see all kinds of uses for this thing, from bomb disposal to vets using them to lift livestock or horses into MRI machines, firefighting, hazardous substance cleanup yadayada etc etc... And it could mean that disabled people could be given opportunities to work in industries they previously couldn't. Brilliant innovation!
@@natrone23 I was more referring to skid steers are tiny in comparison to other equipment. A bit like saying "THIS IS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ANT". But in a world of jumbojets and aircraft carriers the perspective is just a little funny.
And a mass thing, given they apparently rely on the batteries on the back of the machine to provide the counter-balance for the lift at the front... meaning that heavy batteries are actually a *positive* in their view
Interesting design, from what I can tell 2 motors for the drive and 1 for the hydraulic pump, because the weight is so low, they claim pretty impressive stability on off-camber, and ascent\descent. 3000 charge cycles for lead acid is pretty good, probably much easier to replace individual cells as well over lithium, quite a machine!
Yay! I WANT ONE OF THESE! I don't need one through.😁 Only criticism, Robert, we already know what you look like so point the camera the other way so we can see what you are exclaiming about. Other then that. WANT WANT WANT!!!
Wow, this would be amazingly useful around the farm! An electric skid steer, an electric digger, a huge electric tractor, would all be absolutely brilliant if I could afford them ;) One day!
Yep, noticed the same. Might be simply a bit cheaper in Slovakia to use lead acid in this kind of use. Don't know. The motors sounded a bit agricultural also?
They're using the weight of the battery as the counterbalance to stop it tipping over if you lift heavy stuff... if they didn't use lead-acid batteries, they'd just have to load it up with concrete blocks or similar instead.... so might as well use the heavier (and cheaper) batteries.
@@logicalChimp But if they use lithium ion. They can load more batteries thereby increasing its load capacity and operating times and also decrease the charging rate. But there is a trade off in cost as li ion is more expensive than lead acid batt.
At my company, the batteries on the lift trucks in the plant are all lead acid. Less chance of catching fire, weigh more (you want weight in this case), and significantly cheaper.