In this exclusive chat with iVT International at IFPE ConExpo 2023, Bobcat’s innovation solution manager Sawyer Hanson, explains how the OEM took the ‘double leap’ of both switching its compact machines to battery electric power and removing all hydraulics in favour of actuators powered by electric motors. He also profiles the Rogue X – a brand new cabless, tracked, loader that is signposting the way to an autonomous future,
CONEXPO VIDEO: Look – no hydraulics! Bobcat’s 100% electric machines and its autonomous future
By Tom Stone
Tom Stone
Tom Stone is Editor of the iVT brand – which includes digital and print editions of a quarterly magazine and the Advanced Lift-truck supplement, as well as ivtinternational.com, which is updated daily. Tom has met and interviewed some of the world's leading industrial vehicle OEM presidents, CEOs and MDs, and takes great pride in cementing iVT's place as the leading forum for debate within the industry, a reputation that his been built up over the brand's 25-year history.