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Press Release 2023-04-12
Maryland Public Fleet Buys Volvo CE Electric Equipment to Support Sustainability Initiatives In the Washington, D.C., suburbs, a bit of an off-road electric revolution is happening. The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), which includes the Department...
Volvo L25 Electric Wheel Loader
Blog 2022-08-30
Electric Heavy Equipment Incentives: Your Questions Answered More and more private contractors, personal users and government entities are either considering or actually integrating electric heavy equipment into their fleets. A lot of companies and...
Volvo ECR25 Electric Excavator and L25 Electric Wheel Loader at Work
Blog 2022-01-19
Electric Construction Equipment 101: Terms and Definitions If you’re new to electric construction equipment or just looking for a resource to brush up on terminology, this article is for you. It can help you better understand electromobility so...
Charging a Volvo L25 Electric Wheel Loader
Blog 2021-08-23
Electric Construction Equipment: Your Charging Questions Answered I get a lot of questions related to electric construction equipment, and the topic of machine charging seems to be the most prevalent.
Close up of a man opening a service compartment on a Volvo heavy equipment machine.
Blog 2021-05-24
Buying an Excavator? 12 Things to Consider During the Demonstration Over the years I’ve helped a lot of customers evaluate different excavator types and sizes to help ensure they’re buying an excavator best matched to their particular type of work. During a...
Volvo Compact Electric Equipment Lineup
Blog 2021-05-17
Electric Construction Equipment vs. Diesel Performance Comparisons As the product manager for electromobility here in North America, I’ve spent a lot of time helping with the design and development of our new compact electric machines. When some people...
Volvo Electric Equipment
Blog 2021-03-08
Volvo Electric Equipment: New Opportunities for Heavy Equipment Jobs One of the things I find myself saying quite often about our new Volvo electric excavator and wheel loader and our concept machines is that we don’t even know yet all the interesting ways...
Volvo EX03 Electric Excavator
Blog 2021-02-22
Electric and Autonomous Heavy Equipment: The Future of Construction and Mining With the electrification of cars, buses, trucks and other transport vehicles many years in the making, it’s only natural that construction equipment is joining in. The goals of zero...
Premium Lubricants
Blog 2021-02-01
4 Ways Premium Lubricants Lower Heavy Equipment Costs and Improve Performance When it comes to maintaining your construction equipment, the lubricants you choose matter. If your dealer or OEM recommends premium lubricants, they may cost a bit more up front, but the...
Dig Assist for Volvo Excavators
Blog 2020-11-16
How to use Grade Control for Excavators — Volvo Dig Assist: Part 3 We’ve recently made some updates to our Dig Assist machine control system that improve performance, accuracy and safety for excavator operators of all skill levels. With Dig Assist, your...
Blog 2019-05-27
How to Use Grade Control for Excavators — Volvo Dig Assist: Part 2 In Part 1 of our Volvo Dig Assist series, I covered the three basics of Dig Assist Start — Level, Slope and Quick Measure. These features are easy to set up and use for improved operator...
Blog 2019-04-30
Tips on Selecting the Right Excavator Bucket When it comes to selecting buckets, the options can seem limitless. That’s because excavators can tackle a diverse range of projects. There really is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to...
Blog 2019-04-08
Activecare Direct: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Questions When I’m out in the field, I get a lot of questions about telematics. Customers are curious about how to use the data, when to use it, etc. I also get a lot of questions around ActiveCare...
Blog 2019-03-19
How to Prepare Your Excavator for Spring For those of you working in colder climates, it may seem that winter will never end — but the snow has to stop falling eventually, and temperatures will rise. When that happens, it’s time to...
Blog 2019-03-11
3 Tips for Keeping Your Jobs on Budget with ActiveCare Direct Few things can give you a bigger pit in your stomach than realizing a project is going over budget — a conversation no one wants to have with the project owner. In a recent blog post, we...
Blog 2018-11-19
Winterizing: How to Prepare Your Excavator During the Winter Winterizing your excavators isn’t just about readying machines for colder temperatures. You’ll also want your operators to know how to react when snow falls and ice covers the ground. In...
Blog 2018-11-05
Wheeled Excavators vs. Backhoes: 4 Factors to Consider Let’s talk about wheeled excavators versus backhoes. Many backhoe loader customers opt for that machine because of its mobility and how it serves as two machines in one (an excavator and a...
Blog 2018-08-06
Excavator Operator Tips for Trenching and Loading Trenching and loading with an excavator is so common that it’s not unusual for operators to form habits in how they set up their worksites and use their machines. But no matter an operator’s...
Blog 2018-05-30
Demolition Excavators: Factory-Fitted Versus Aftermarket Wrecking balls are tools of the past. Excavators have the capability to more strategically and safely dismantle structures, and many contractors I talk to view demolition as a growth...
Blog 2018-05-01
7 Durability Features To Look for When Buying An Excavator If you’re buying an excavator, your chief concern is probably uptime. We can talk about lift capacity, reach and smooth controls, but if it’s not running then you’re not working. Excavator...
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