The bauma construction trade show in Munich, Germany presented an opportunity for a number of companies to showcase their off-highway electric vehicle (OHEV) products, including Zapi, Technotrans, Moog Construction and ZQuip.
Zapi, headquartered in Poviglio, Italy, introduced its next-generation solutions for vehicle electrification and fleet management, debuting the DCC3, a rugged, compact DC/DC converter developed by Inmotion, a Zapi Group company. “The new DCC3 converts input voltages from 250 to 900 V into a stable, adjustable 12 or 24 V output, delivering up to 10 kW of power for auxiliary systems in electric or hybrid industrial, commercial, and utility vehicles,” the company said.
Technotrans, a Sassenberg, Germany-based company, made its trade show debut, introducing thermal management solutions for battery-powered off-road vehicles in the mining and off-road sectors. The company makes operators of off-road EVs a fairly strong promise: “We can offer our customers a thermal management solution tailored to the application for every electrified off-road vehicle,” it said in a statement.
The company is solely focused on thermal management and sees this “as a holistic concept for optimizing vehicle performance,” said Bastian Thiel, the company’s Business Development Manager. “With powerful cooling and efficient component control, we ensure precise temperature regulation even under extreme loads.”
East Aurora, New York-based Moog Construction introduced its new Adaptive Electrification Management System, a tool that is intended to reduce the cost and complexity of designing, building, operating and repairing electric off-highway vehicles. The program is part of Moog Construction’s TerraTech portfolio of products that manufacturers can use to design electric machines.
The system is capable of simplifying the management of multiple functions on electric vehicles by employing an integrated advanced controller with configurable software, high-voltage power distribution, DC/DC converters and both single-and dual-axis inverters that should efficiently power multiple machine functions.
Meanwhile, ZQuip, a startup within Moog that focuses on developing electrification solutions, showed two new products at its stand. The first is an energy-supply system for zero-emission vehicles. This system can be adapted to power a vehicle using either diesel fuel or battery energy. The second offering is a prototype 8-ton excavator that is geospatially intelligent and powered by a swappable battery system.
ZQuip developed the excavator in partnership with Leica Geosystems and it is be equipped with that company’s advanced machine control solution, which brings together real-time data and precise design execution.
The bauma (bauma is shorthand in German for Baumaschinen, or construction equipment) is a triennial trade show catering to the construction industry. It’s also the largest trade show in the world in terms of square meterage according to the article “Das sind die 6 größten Messen weltweit” by Dennis Heinzmann that appeared in the July 2018 issue of the online publication “Messebau.de Ratgeber.“
Sources: Zapi Group, Technotrans, Moog Construction, ZQuip