All through Media Days previous to CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the startup Elhyte unveiled the E-CUBE, an interchangeable and common battery suitable with 2.5-ton mini-excavators. CEO Vincent Robin additionally introduced the legit release of the corporate’s emblem in addition to the scheduled free up in 2025 of the ELH25.1, the emblem’s first compact mini-excavator.
Elhyte E-Dice battery. (Photograph: Elhyte)
Elhyte was once based in March 2022 in Viriat, France, by way of Robin, founder CEO, and by way of Olivier Gonzalvez, affiliate and CEO of SGC Travaux Spéciaux in Sainte-Foy-l’Argentière. Elhyte makes a speciality of electrification of building apparatus.
The corporate’s new E-Dice battery makes use of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery chemistry, which the corporate stated permits a lifespan of as much as 12,000 hours of use by way of other mini-excavators. On the finish of that lifespan, the battery is able to being reused as a desk bound power garage unit for packages corresponding to solar energy manufacturing.
The cubic configuration of the E-Dice optimizes to be had house, stated Elhyte, and does now not building up the load of a retrofitted system. The battery replaces the unique inner combustion engine and counterweight, keeping up the steadiness, middle of gravity and lifting efficiency of the mini-excavator, the corporate added.
“Supplied with a thermal control device to function underneath excessive prerequisites from -4° F to +140° F, E-Dice battery self-regulates in keeping with exterior temperature,” stated Robin. Pre-conditioning of the battery may be imaginable to succeed in the optimum working temperature as quickly because the system begins up.
The ELH25.1 shall be Elhyte’s first compact mini-excavator provided with the E-Dice battery. (Photograph: Elhyte)
An built-in lifting instrument, consisting of a detachable jib and an electrical winch, permits a single-operator to interchange the E-Dice battery in not up to 10 mins.The battery is instantly moveable and provided with same old Kind 2 connectors for automotive-style charging. With an adapter, it’s imaginable to rate it without delay from same old shops, Elhyte said.
The E-Dice battery will to start with be retrofit into present mini-excavators earlier than being utilized in Elhyte-branded fashions. The primary fashion, the ELH25.1, shall be introduced in 2025 as the results of a partnership with a longtime producer.
The E-Dice joins the Mobilyte pack – interchangeable batteries for heavy apparatus over 10 lots – which was once formally introduced on the Espace BTP French business display in Lyon (FR) in July 2023. That very same 12 months, Elhyte confirmed the primary totally electrical retrofitted 25-ton excavator on the Dig Excursion exhibition in Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure and on the Espace BTP/InnovDayTP business display on the Lyon-Bron Hippodrome.
With its headquarters in Viriat and present manufacturing workshops in Mornant, France, Elhyte plans to ascertain its long run manufacturing middle within the Ain counties by way of the tip of 2025.
