Electrifying Heavy Machinery Takes More Than a Battery ⚡
Heavy machinery is going electric. But replacing a diesel engine with a battery doesn't make the whole machine electric.
There’s another system doing much of the actual work: hydraulics.
Hydraulics have been the standard for decades for good reason. They're powerful, proven, and capable of moving enormous loads. But as equipment becomes electric, connected, and increasingly autonomous, the industry needs a better way to create and control that force.
That was at the center of a recent conversation with Tom Raftery on the Climate Confident podcast. We talked about the challenge of decarbonizing heavy machinery, why actuation is such an important piece of the electrification puzzle, and what it takes to bring a fundamentally new industrial technology into the real world.
Beltdraulic™ was built for this transition. It delivers hydraulic-class force without hydraulic fluid, while bringing the efficiency, precision, sensing, and digital control that increasingly electric machines need.
And that becomes even more important as the industry moves beyond electrification toward automation and Physical AI. Machines can't just have electric power sources. They need systems that allow computers to precisely control how they move and interact with the physical world.
That's the opportunity we're building toward at RISE: changing one of the fundamental systems inside heavy machinery so the next generation of equipment can be more efficient, electric, and intelligent.
🎧 Listen to the full Climate Confident conversation here.
