Background: Company financials
19 Dec 2023

Kobelco
Update: Company financials
15 Dec 2023

JCB
Full profile interview: SWOT
8 Dec 2023

Volvo CE
lower energy cost, lower maintenance, less noise, less heat, easy indoor/underground operation and more.
Strong portfolio of electric machines.
Available in most major construction markets.
IDTechEx thinks Volvo CE is a leader in terms of electric machine options, commercialisation progress and availability across different regions.
Currently researching hydrogen technologies which could be a future solution.
Innovative new business model proposed with TARA and the TA15.
Full profile interview: SWOT
5 Dec 2023

Caterpillar: Electric Construction Equipment
Background: Company financials
30 Nov 2023

LiuGong
Full profile interview: SWOT
24 Nov 2023

Caterpillar
Full profile interview: SWOT
23 Nov 2023

XCMG: Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co
- Better air quality for workers on the site
- Less noise, making a more comfortable and potentially safer environment
- Ability to work indoors/underground without air extraction/filtering systems
- Lower TCO from reduced energy and maintenance costs
IDTechEx believes that out of the leading manufacturers, XCMG has the biggest selection of EV construction machines.
Innovative dual gun charging to deal with recharging of very large batteries.
Largest production electric excavator.
Background: Competitors
20 Nov 2023

Kubota
Largest supplier of construction equipment, based in US. Multiple electric vehicle projects.
Background: Competitors
16 Nov 2023

Zoomlion
Largest supplier of construction equipment, based in US. Multiple electric vehicle projects.
Full profile interview: SWOT
2 Nov 2023

Epiroc
Full profile interview
30 Oct 2023

Komatsu: Electrification of Construction Machines
Komatsu is a global leader in the supply of construction equipment. It has recently begun its electrification transition and this profile explores its current offerings and strategy.
Included are:
4 Aug 2021

Komatsu Announces Alliance to Advance Zero-Emission Mining Solutions
Working together to rapidly innovate in support of carbon reduction targets, Komatsu and several of its customers have formed the Komatsu Greenhouse Gas Alliance. The founding members of the alliance are Rio Tinto, BHP, Codelco and Boliden.
Full profile interview
22 Jun 2021

e-ThermoGentech (e-Thermo) Japan
We visited this company. They get half the efficiency of Komatsu KELK rigid thermoelectric chips meaning 3-4% but achieve what they call "unique" flexibility by using the usual BiTe as chip arrays on a flexible substrate.
17 Feb 2020

High power thermoelectric energy harvesting starts to look good
In energy harvesting in general, there is 100 times the market potential in high power rather than low power. In this article IDTechEx explores this opportunity.
4 Sep 2017

Thermoelectrics: Doors Close; Doors Open
This article covers the challenges companies involved in thermoelectric energy harvesting have faced and possible areas of development in the future.
External press release
26 Jun 2017

KELK to launch thermoelectric generation-applied products
KELK Ltd is starting full-scale production and sales of three types of thermoelectric generation-applied products in June this year.
6 Sep 2016

Learning from the death of Micropelt
Fabrice Poulin writes to a Linkedin energy harvesting group, "The industry was already buzzing about the difficulties of Micropelt end of last year."