The second a part of iVT’s in-depth take a look at among the greatest new autos that will probably be on show at Bauma in Munich subsequent week (7-13 April 2025), as chosen by iVT editors. Maintain watching this area for extra highlights and new bulletins within the days to come back
Case Development Gear’s Let’s Drive the Future idea car
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Case Development Gear will return to Bauma Munich this April after skipping the final version. The OEM will give guests a glimpse into the way forward for development by unveiling a daring idea car, created by CNH’s visionary head of commercial design David Wilkie.
Whereas the machine guarantees to be distinctive, it can incorporate many market-ready applied sciences that will probably be showcased on manufacturing autos throughout the Case stand throughout Bauma.
The idea car, which will probably be revealed on the opening day, Monday, 7 April, will embody the corporate’s Let’s Drive the Future imaginative and prescient. “It will likely be a breakthrough in design and applied sciences that can present how Case is seeing the way forward for development,” says Egidio Galano, director of development tools product administration for Europe at CNH Industrial
“By integrating zero-emission applied sciences, AI-driven automation, and enhanced connectivity, we aren’t simply constructing machines, we’re shaping the way forward for the development business,” says Fabrizio Cepollina, head of CNH CE EMEA. “Our sector is impacted by new laws and a scarcity of expert operators. Our aim is to supply options that combine new gasoline applied sciences and automation to boost effectivity.”
Past the idea reveal, Case’s in depth exhibit will characteristic a Tech Room – an immersive audiovisual journey into the way forward for development providers and merchandise – and a complicated driver help system for wheel loaders will probably be launched to guests, with the Case Good Loader Help AI Expertise.
Elsewhere on the stand there will probably be new mini-excavators with two-piece growth configurations,
a brand-new 100hp wheel loader, upgraded variations of bigger wheel loaders, enhanced backhoe loaders, and the most recent grader collection with redesigned operator controls. The OEM has additionally promised to showcase a few of its all-new electrical machines.
Caterpillar’s 775 next-generation dumper
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Caterpillar is celebrating its a centesimal anniversary in type with the launch of a number of new machines at Bauma, headlined by its new Cat 775 off-highway dumper truck.
The brand new 775, which will probably be seen in public for the primary time in Munich, represents an improve to earlier variations with an elevated physique quantity and enhanced efficiency and effectivity. “It will make an enormous splash,” says Amy Doughty, Caterpillar’s PR consultant for EMEA. It incorporates a spacious operator cab, and dual-axle configuration with six heavy-duty tyres. The truck is aimed on the quarrying market, which it has been serving because it was launched in 1992 as a smaller model of the profitable mine haulers, the Cat 789, 785 and 777 from the Nineteen Seventies.
The 775 will probably be one in every of 48 machines featured at Caterpillar’s 9,000m2 stand in Corridor B6. The show aligns with Caterpillar’s theme The Subsequent 100 Years, focusing on the corporate’s dedication to future innovation and sustainability.
“Caterpillar is extraordinarily proud to be celebrating its 100 yr anniversary this yr,” says Doughty. “We additionally wish to be speaking to our clients about what the longer term holds for us, as a result of we intend to be right here for the following 100 years as properly.”
Tobroco-Large’s GS950TE electrical skid-steer loader
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The all-new battery electrical GS950TE skid-steer monitor loader will probably be one of many new-vehicle highlights on the Tobroco-Large stand at Bauma, combining excessive efficiency with zero-emission operation, designed particularly
for difficult terrain and low-bearing surfaces.
With a traction power of 5.2kN and hydraulic capacities of as much as 38 l/min at 180 bar in Increase mode, the GS950TE delivers substantial energy whereas minimising soil compaction. Its tipping load is 890kg whereas sustaining a compact 90cm width.
Battery know-how options prominently within the design, with a typical Jungheinrich LFP battery and area for a second battery, offering a mixed capability of 23.3 kWh – sufficient for a full working day. The GS950TE additionally incorporates an energy-efficient cooling system that prompts proportionally based mostly on oil temperature, decreasing power consumption and noise ranges.
The Dutch OEM may even introduce its first wheel dumper on the exhibition. The GD10H is a 1-tonne machine that includes
a excessive tip operate and is powered by a Kubota 1.1-litre engine. It’s designed particularly for development, landscaping, and rental purposes.
Hidromek’s 800 LC HD 80-tonne crawler excavator
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At Bauma, Turkish OEM Hidromek will unveil its highest tonnage excavator ever, the 800 LC HD. At
80 tonnes the brand new crawler excavator will characterize an enormous step-up in measurement from its present largest machine, the 520 LC HD, which has an working weight of 53.7 tonnes.
The car is aimed on the heavy-duty machine market in areas requiring excessive energy and capability, reminiscent of quarries, open pit mines and different heavy work websites.
Hidromek has revealed that the machine could have a 5.2 m³ commonplace bucket capability, a 6.7-metre growth,
a 2.7-metre arm and a 512hp engine. Nevertheless, precisely what it seems to be like is a carefully guarded secret till it arrives in Munich.
Hidromek may even showcase coming highlights of its forthcoming all-new technology of excavators, together with demolition machines, new midi excavators, and new motor graders.
Along with all these, Hidromek has revealed {that a} new product class will probably be launched on the honest. “We’re engaged on electrical and hybrid autos, which will probably be at Bauma for the primary time,” says Burcu Gözde Dogan, PR group chief for Hidromek.
Bobcat’s E16, E17z, E19 & E20z mini excavators
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Bobcat is to launch an all-new technology of 1-2 tonne mini excavators, that includes vital hydraulic enhancements designed to spice up efficiency, effectivity and productiveness.
After three years of growth and over 20,000 hours of testing, overseen by a group of fifty engineers and designers making over 80 buyer visits, the brand new fashions are constructed to observe within the success of the earlier technology that has already retailed over 34,000 models.
The brand new machines incorporate greater than 500 new parts in comparison with their predecessors, with one of the vital vital developments being the implementation of high-end hydraulics. “Our engineers did one thing fairly distinctive – they applied options and hydraulics which are normally reserved for larger machines,” says Lukas Jungbauer, communications lead at Bobcat. “They applied a load-sensing pump along with closed-centre flow-sharing hydraulic techniques.”
These technical enhancements ship sensible advantages for operators within the subject. “The machine is extra highly effective due to the sharing of the stream. It permits operators to run actually demanding, hungry attachments whereas driving the machines, so you are able to do a number of duties concurrently,” says Jungbauer.
Whereas the brand new technology maintains an analogous exterior look to earlier fashions, and are powered once more by comparable low-noise 10-11kW diesel engines, the vary is designed to satisfy regional necessities, particularly relating to transportation weight limits.
Further options and particulars of the brand new vary will probably be revealed on the Bobcat stand in Munich, which can give attention to enhancing productiveness and optimizing efficiency, significantly when utilizing attachments.
Bobcat may even exhibit its TL25.60e battery electrical telehandler idea designed to exceed the ability and efficiency of its diesel counterpart whereas emitting zero emissions.
Bomag’s emergency brake help security system
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Bomag is showcasing its Emergency Brake Help system for pivot-steered tandem rollers at Bauma following the system’s profitable certification.
The system is designed to forestall collisions throughout operation whereas defending scorching asphalt surfaces from injury. “It scans the encircling of the machine utilizing two high-end 360-degree lidar scanners, considering velocity, driving route, steering angle, and several other different parameters,” Florian Lange, head of product administration at Bomag tells iVT.
The lidar-based atmosphere monitoring allows the curler to precisely assess its environment and mission its journey path based mostly on velocity and steering angle. It might probably determine each stationary and transferring obstacles, permitting localization of objects and individuals which are doubtlessly in danger when the machine is in movement.
“If any person is kneeling on the job website, for instance, the machine recognises this very early and begins decelerating very gently to keep away from the collision and shield the asphalt floor on the similar time,” says Lange. The system applies completely different braking methods relying on the scenario, with security all the time paramount.
The help system is displayed and operated by way of the touchscreen fitted as commonplace on pivot-steered Bomag tandem rollers. It may be individually tailored to the operator’s driving type and particular website situations and is especially useful when visibility is poor, reminiscent of at nightfall or on evening websites.
Moreover the Emergency Brake Help, Bomag will showcase a number of different improvements at Bauma, together with the BMP 8500, a new-generation remote-controlled multipurpose compactor.
Develon’s Actual X market-ready autonomy
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Develon will make its Bauma debut (following its rebrand from Doosan Development Gear) with its Actual X autonomous know-how.
“We began eight years in the past with the Idea X,” says Marc Glesius, gross sales supervisor at Develon. “Now the idea is over and now we have the actual product. That is why we’re calling it Actual X.”
Attendees to ConExpo in Las Vegas in 2023 will keep in mind the eye-catching cabless Idea X2 machines, however Actual X sees this know-how put in in conventional cabbed excavators to allow autonomous mode, distant management mode or regular joystick operation.
At Bauma will probably be demonstrated as a retrofit on Develon’s current DX225-7 excavator, with plans to increase compatibility with the introduction of Develon’s new technology of machines.
Actual X makes use of AI allow quite a lot of autonomous operations together with trenching, bulk earthwork, and truck loading. “It’s even in a position to react on conditions as they modify,” says Glesius. For instance, if Actual X has been tasked to load a truck, will probably be in a position to monitor wherever it’s so there is no such thing as a want for it to cease in the identical place on every go.
There may even be a substantial amount of consideration across the unveiling of the very first in a brand new technology of autos for Develon – the ‘-9’ collection. The OEM is holding most particulars below wraps for now besides to say that the primary machines will probably be two, sensible, heavy crawler excavators, which can incorporate 10 ground-breaking applied sciences.
Additionally hold a watch out for the DX140WRE, a battery electrical 14-tonne wheeled excavator, which might function for eight hours on one cost, in addition to demonstrations of Develon’s Good Round View Monitoring (SAVM) and Clear Bucket 2.0 security techniques.
Kubota’s KX019-4 & U27-4 with electrical retrofit system
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Kubota’s Bauma stand will showcase its progressive new electrical retrofit answer which allows its fashionable diesel-powered KX019-4 and U27-4 excavators to be transformed to electrical operation in roughly in the future.
The thought addresses one of many development business’s greatest challenges: the excessive price barrier of buying new electrical machines. “The costs of purpose-built electrical machines may be two occasions the value of an current excavator. This is a chance to transform folks,” Will Pike, advertising and marketing lead for development at Kubota, tells iVT.
The retrofit course of includes eradicating the diesel engine, gasoline strains, and gasoline tank from current machines and putting in electrical techniques, a battery pack, energy distribution unit, operator interface, and charging parts. The electrical motors then run the unique hydraulic pump, sustaining the excavator’s core performance.
This modular method permits for exceptional versatility. Prospects should purchase new machines with the battery pack pre-installed or retrofit their current tools later, serving to to future-proof tools investments in opposition to upcoming emissions laws, and enabling homeowners to money in on the decrease working prices of an electrical machine.
The battery pack’s runtime aligns with typical utilization patterns – typically lower than two hours of precise operation per day – and operators can simply prime up expenses all through the workday to increase run time as wanted.
The electrical retrofit answer is predicted to roll out all through 2025, with preliminary availability in France. The UK has already acquired its first take a look at machine, and the know-how is being demonstrated within the subject.
Sennebogen’a 6203 E telescopic crawler crane
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German OEM Sennebogen, referred to as a specialist in cranes and materials dealing with autos, is introducing its new 6203 E crane, the biggest and strongest mannequin in its present vary, with a most load capability of 200 metric tons.
The car, making its public debut in Munich, incorporates a six-section pin growth that extends to 56.4 meters, with an non-compulsory hydraulically adjustable jib that may attain 78 meters.
The crane is powered by a 194kW Stage V diesel engine, appropriate with HVO gasoline. Its predominant and auxiliary winches ship 135kN pulling power every, with rope speeds as much as 115 m/min.
The telescopic crawler undercarriage affords a monitor width starting from 3.5 to six.0 meters, permitting for improved adaptability to a spread of various website situations. The crane can journey with 100% of specified load capability and carry out 360-degree slewing operations. Normal 1,000mm double grouser monitor sneakers are included, with non-compulsory polyamide plates out there to assist shield delicate work surfaces.
The crane options the Maxcab operator cabin, which tilts 20 levels as commonplace and may be optionally raised to a viewing top of 5.70 meters with 30-degree tilt. A brand new management system, Sencon Load Management (SLC), supplies real-time ground stress show and lifting course of knowledge.
For simple transportation, the crane may be disassembled into seven models, with a transport width of three meters with out crawler tracks. The machine is designed for self-assembly from a low loader. Main purposes embrace heavy precast concrete meeting, bridge and infrastructure development, and auxiliary assist for wind turbine development.
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