The second a part of iVT’s in-depth take a look at a few of the greatest new automobiles that can be on show at Bauma in Munich subsequent week (7-13 April 2025), as chosen by iVT editors. Preserve watching this area for extra highlights and new bulletins within the days to come back
Case Building Tools’s Let’s Drive the Future idea automobile
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Case Building Tools will return to Bauma Munich this April after skipping the final version. The OEM will give guests a glimpse into the way forward for building by unveiling a daring idea automobile, created by CNH’s visionary head of business design David Wilkie.
Whereas the machine guarantees to be distinctive, it would incorporate many market-ready applied sciences that can be showcased on manufacturing automobiles throughout the Case stand throughout Bauma.
The idea automobile, which can be revealed on the opening day, Monday, 7 April, will embody the corporate’s Let’s Drive the Future imaginative and prescient. “Will probably be a breakthrough in design and applied sciences that can present how Case is seeing the way forward for building,” says Egidio Galano, director of building gear product administration for Europe at CNH Industrial
“By integrating zero-emission applied sciences, AI-driven automation, and enhanced connectivity, we’re not simply constructing machines, we’re shaping the way forward for the development trade,” says Fabrizio Cepollina, head of CNH CE EMEA. “Our sector is impacted by new rules and a scarcity of expert operators. Our objective is to supply options that combine new gas applied sciences and automation to boost effectivity.”
Past the idea reveal, Case’s intensive exhibit will characteristic a Tech Room – an immersive audiovisual journey into the way forward for building providers and merchandise – and a complicated driver help system for wheel loaders can be launched to guests, with the Case Good Loader Help AI Know-how.
Elsewhere on the stand there can be new mini-excavators with two-piece increase configurations,
a brand-new 100hp wheel loader, upgraded variations of bigger wheel loaders, enhanced backhoe loaders, and the newest grader sequence 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
Corridor B6
Caterpillar is celebrating its a hundredth anniversary in model 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 can 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’ll make a giant splash,” says Amy Doughty, Caterpillar’s PR consultant for EMEA. It encompasses 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 can 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 12 months anniversary this 12 months,” says Doughty. “We additionally wish to be speaking to our prospects about what the long run holds for us, as a result of we intend to be right here for the following 100 years as properly.”
Tobroco-Big’s GS950TE electrical skid-steer loader
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The all-new battery electrical GS950TE skid-steer observe loader can be one of many new-vehicle highlights on the Tobroco-Big stand at Bauma, combining excessive efficiency with zero-emission operation, designed particularly
for difficult terrain and low-bearing surfaces.
With a traction drive of 5.2kN and hydraulic capacities of as much as 38 l/min at 180 bar in Enhance mode, the GS950TE delivers substantial energy whereas minimising soil compaction. Its tipping load is 890kg whereas sustaining a compact 90cm width.
Battery expertise 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 vitality consumption and noise ranges.
The Dutch OEM may also introduce its first wheel dumper on the exhibition. The GD10H is a 1-tonne machine that includes
a excessive tip perform and is powered by a Kubota 1.1-litre engine. It’s designed particularly for building, 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 symbolize a giant step-up in dimension from its present largest machine, the 520 LC HD, which has an working weight of 53.7 tonnes.
The automobile is aimed on the heavy-duty machine market in areas requiring excessive energy and capability, corresponding to quarries, open pit mines and different heavy work websites.
Hidromek has revealed that the machine could have a 5.2 m³ customary bucket capability, a 6.7-metre increase,
a 2.7-metre arm and a 512hp engine. Nonetheless, precisely what it seems like is a intently guarded secret till it arrives in Munich.
Hidromek may also showcase coming highlights of its forthcoming all-new era 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 can be launched on the truthful. “We’re engaged on electrical and hybrid automobiles, which can 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 era of 1-2 tonne mini excavators, that includes important 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 era that has already retailed over 34,000 items.
The brand new machines incorporate greater than 500 new elements in comparison with their predecessors, with one of the vital important developments being the implementation of high-end hydraulics. “Our engineers did one thing fairly distinctive – they applied options and hydraulics which can be often 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 area. “The machine is extra highly effective because of the sharing of the circulation. 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 era maintains the same exterior look to earlier fashions, and are powered once more by related low-noise 10-11kW diesel engines, the vary is designed to fulfill regional necessities, particularly concerning transportation weight limits.
Further options and particulars of the brand new vary can be revealed on the Bobcat stand in Munich, which is able to concentrate on bettering productiveness and optimizing efficiency, significantly when utilizing attachments.
Bobcat may also reveal 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 stop collisions throughout operation whereas defending scorching asphalt surfaces from injury. “It scans the encompassing of the machine utilizing two high-end 360-degree lidar scanners, taking into consideration velocity, driving route, steering angle, and a number of other different parameters,” Florian Lange, head of product administration at Bomag tells iVT.
The lidar-based setting monitoring permits the curler to precisely assess its environment and venture its journey path based mostly on velocity and steering angle. It will possibly determine each stationary and transferring obstacles, permitting localization of objects and individuals which can be doubtlessly in danger when the machine is in movement.
“If someone 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 defend the asphalt floor on the identical 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 through the touchscreen fitted as customary on pivot-steered Bomag tandem rollers. It may be individually tailored to the operator’s driving model and particular website circumstances and is especially precious when visibility is poor, corresponding to 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 Building Tools) with its Actual X autonomous expertise.
“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 we’ve the actual product. That is why we’re calling it Actual X.”
Attendees to ConExpo in Las Vegas in 2023 will bear in mind the eye-catching cabless Idea X2 machines, however Actual X sees this expertise put in in conventional cabbed excavators to allow autonomous mode, distant management mode or regular joystick operation.
At Bauma it is going to be demonstrated as a retrofit on Develon’s present DX225-7 excavator, with plans to develop compatibility with the introduction of Develon’s new era of machines.
Actual X makes use of AI allow a wide range of autonomous operations together with trenching, bulk earthwork, and truck loading. “It’s even capable of react on conditions as they alter,” says Glesius. For instance, if Actual X has been tasked to load a truck, it is going to be capable of observe wherever it’s so there isn’t a want for it to cease in the identical place on every go.
There may also be quite a lot of consideration across the unveiling of the very first in a brand new era of automobiles for Develon – the ‘-9’ sequence. The OEM is maintaining most particulars beneath wraps for now besides to say that the primary machines can be two, sensible, heavy crawler excavators, which is able to incorporate 10 ground-breaking applied sciences.
Additionally maintain a watch out for the DX140WRE, a battery electrical 14-tonne wheeled excavator, which may 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 modern new electrical retrofit answer which permits its common diesel-powered KX019-4 and U27-4 excavators to be transformed to electrical operation in roughly sooner or later.
The thought addresses one of many building trade’s largest challenges: the excessive value barrier of buying new electrical machines. “The costs of purpose-built electrical machines will be two instances the value of an present excavator. This is a chance to transform folks,” Will Pike, advertising lead for building at Kubota, tells iVT.
The retrofit course of entails eradicating the diesel engine, gas strains, and gas tank from present machines and putting in electrical techniques, a battery pack, energy distribution unit, operator interface, and charging elements. The electrical motors then run the unique hydraulic pump, sustaining the excavator’s core performance.
This modular strategy permits for outstanding versatility. Prospects should purchase new machines with the battery pack pre-installed or retrofit their present gear later, serving to to future-proof gear investments in opposition to upcoming emissions rules, and enabling homeowners to money in on the decrease operating 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 anticipated to roll out all through 2025, with preliminary availability in France. The UK has already acquired its first check machine, and the expertise is being demonstrated within the area.
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 automobiles, 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 automobile, making its public debut in Munich, encompasses a six-section pin increase 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, suitable with HVO gas. Its fundamental and auxiliary winches ship 135kN pulling drive every, with rope speeds as much as 115 m/min.
The telescopic crawler undercarriage provides a observe width starting from 3.5 to six.0 meters, permitting for improved adaptability to a spread of various website circumstances. The crane can journey with 100% of specified load capability and carry out 360-degree slewing operations. Normal 1,000mm double grouser observe footwear are included, with non-compulsory polyamide plates accessible to assist defend delicate work surfaces.
The crane options the Maxcab operator cabin, which tilts 20 levels as customary and will be optionally raised to a viewing peak 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 information.
For straightforward transportation, the crane will be disassembled into seven items, with a transport width of three meters with out crawler tracks. The machine is designed for self-assembly from a low loader. Major purposes embody heavy precast concrete meeting, bridge and infrastructure building, and auxiliary help for wind turbine building.
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