Mona Motors, based in Germany, will give the first showing of its Mona Nova electric telehandler, developed for agriculture, at EuroTier 2026.
The company says the machine will appeal to farms with their own photovoltaic systems looking to reduce costs. It offers a lifting capacity of 2.7 tonnes and a lifting height of 6.3m, and Mona says it was designed from the ground up as an electric work machine. A 54kW drive system is paired with a separate 26kW working hydraulics system, with power supplied by a 46kWh LiFePO4 battery that can be charged at a wall-box through the standard 22kW onboard charger.
Mona says an electric drive can be economically attractive where annual operating hours are high. The company calculates that a conventional telehandler can consume about 8l of diesel per operating hour under appropriate loads, or around 6,000l a year at 750 operating hours, while under comparable conditions the Nova would average about 12.5kWh per operating hour, though any saving depends on diesel and electricity prices.
An integrated telemetry system supplies vehicle and operational data to the farmer and the service centre, and the Mona Connect app lets the farmer check the battery’s charge level and adjust charging to match the farm’s energy use and its own power generation. Software updates can be installed over the air without a service visit.
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