The off-highway sector is now seeing the introduction of electric powertrains. Nick Holt visited Hyperdrive to look at the development and production of battery packs for construction equipment
Based just outside Sunderland, UK, Hyperdrive has been developing battery solutions for various applications since 2012. In 2017, the company signed a supply agreement with construction machinery manufacturer JCB to develop and produce battery packs for the OEM’s first fully electrically powered mini excavator.
Hyperdrive says one of its key services is tailoring the management of the battery performance in the control unit to meet the customer’s application requirements. As part of the JCB’s E-Tec project, the company had to fit the batteries into the existing mini excavator replacing the diesel power unit, and also fine-tune how they performed in the application…
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