In 2019 we launched the world’s first battery-driven drilling rig by replacing conventional diesel engines with a battery-electrical powertrain. Thus creating a trendsetting electro-hydraulic machine revolutionizing the construction machinery business. The benefits for our customers are obvious: local zero emission without any restrictions to performance and mobility. Without our well-educated and professional development team such a big step into the future of our business would have never been possible as they had to find solutions to unknown problems. Our developers had to think about selecting batteries, power electronics and motors into existing limits and frameworks of our machines. Therefore they have been faced with completely new tasks e.g. dimensioning of the battery capacity and power through analyzing telemetry-data and simulating. However, our vision will go further: a couple of developers are dealing with electrifying all rotatory drives including hoist, slewing and traveling gear. Their goal is to combine knowledge of various disciplines in order to create the best fully electric machines possible. To ensure the success of the story our developers have to take on responsibility and work proactive and self-contained. As you can see: at Liebherr our developers are putting all their passion and enthusiasm into their daily work in order to create leading innovations and shape technological progress: we are striving for excellence!
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