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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #22 Electric Excavators: Cities cut carbon in construction
Description: Since 1913 the world’s most famous flower show
has been held every Spring in Chelsea in London. This year among the electric
blue Persian Slippers, the white and yellow Anthemis Punctata, and the eye
catching, deep pink Digitalis Illumination series of Chris Beardshaw’s Morgan
Stanley Garden, there is a focus on creating beautiful gardens with a lighter
environmental footprint. To achieve this they rejected diesel fuelled
excavators and turned to a battery powered machine, Volvo Construction
Equipment’s ECR25 Electric, to prepare the site.
Low noise, no
emissions and zero fossil fuel means a smaller carbon footpr...