LeeBoy Debuts Prototype 8520C Electric Asphalt Paver at ConExpo 2023 : CEG

Leveraging a range of EV components and propulsion technologies provided by General Motors, with engineering support from Powertrain Control Solutions, the prototype 8520C E-Paver helps showcase the potential for electrification in the commercial asphalt paving industry.

Leveraging a vary of EV elements and propulsion systems delivered by General Motors, with engineering assistance from Powertrain Control Options, the prototype 8520C E-Paver will help showcase the opportunity for electrification in the commercial asphalt paving sector.

LeeBoy, a company of devices for the commercial asphalt sector, has released its very first prototype electric paver with the 8520C E-Paver, in collaboration with Basic Motors (GM) and Powertrain Command Alternatives (PCS).

The 8520C E-Paver proceeds to set the typical in large-professional paving with the demonstrated general performance operators have occur to count on from LeeBoy coupled with the capability to meet up with the foreseeable future calls for of the asphalt paving business, the company explained.

“We know that the business is producing a shift to electric powered devices,” Chris Broome, senior product supervisor at LeeBoy claimed.

“What we required to do with the E-Paver is get an automotive grade electric drive technique and match it with founded LeeBoy components. The hydraulic techniques on the E-Paver are a mirror impression of the 8520C that operators are made use of to, we changed the diesel motor and LeeBoy built-in a appropriate electrical generate system.”

Leveraging a array of EV elements and propulsion technologies provided by General Motors, with engineering assist from Powertrain Handle Answers, the prototype 8520C E-Paver allows showcase the potential for electrification in the business asphalt paving business.

“As GM pursues its eyesight of an all-electric potential, extending the positive aspects of EV engineering over and above our core auto portfolio will continue to participate in a position in greater over-all adoption,” stated Travis Hester, GM vice president of EV Progress Functions. “This concept paver device, developed in collaboration with LeeBoy and PCS, highlights a different fascinating application and enterprise that can profit enormously from electrification.”

Enhanced Applications, Ease and comfort for Operators 

When the prototype 8520C E-Paver was intended with dependable LeeBoy options and technological innovation like the Legend Hd Screed, GM’s electric drive program not only will help contractors satisfy their sustainability ambitions, but also can improve operating efficiency and convenience.

“On the electrical paver, contractors will not be throwing away gasoline when idling,” Broome claimed. “Any time you place the machine in neutral, the paver powers down so you might be not wasting electricity waiting around on vans.”

As an supplemental benefit, operators also can expertise reduced sound stages when using an electric machine and the normal operating station they are relaxed with on other LeeBoy equipment.

“The controls element our “LeeBoy Loved ones Really feel” and style,” Broome claimed. “They are conventional to our electrical more than hydraulic controls so there won’t be a studying curve to leap in from an 8520 to this electric device.”

LeeBoy was equipped to sustain some of the common control model making use of the controls development knowledge of Engine Electricity Resource (EPS).