Wishing you a Merry Christmas from the team at Etrucks® and Landex. We hope you are looking forward to 2026 with the same positive attitude as the Big Chill bear.
The 800kWh Windrose Gen 2 can run Auckland to Wellington without charging.
Testing Fonterra’s new 400kW Kwetta chargers attracted some interest
A good article from the Herald on the Foodstuffs trial of the Deepway towing their Fairfax e-axle trailer
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Introducing the Farizon H9E ultralight class one truck with a 2,500kg tare as a cab chassis. Featuring the exceptional Geely group build quality for $83,250 + GST after LEHVF.
Testing a Fairfax e-axle refrigerated trailer for Big Chill Distribution with the Deepway from Auckland down to Tokoroa and back. An affordable zero tail pipe emissions package that just works.
A video leaving their Highbrook facility
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https://youtu.be/Qlt1by5RgO4
Windrose has added a 70kW EPTO pump to the rear drive axle.
That opens up many possibilities like these side dumpers, perhaps not a b-triple for New Zealand.
Handover day for United Civil’s XE918EV wheel loader. It completes their fully electric contractors package together with their XE35U-E excavator and battery charging trailer.
Opening day for Green Gorilla’s demolition waste resource recovery plant at Rotowaro. The whole plant is electric, helped out by their XC968EV.
Hand over day for Green Gorilla’s XC938EV at their Tauriko plant.
A video of the 35t XC9108EV wheel loader with a 700kWh battery that can be charged in 50 minutes via four CCS2 guns. In the video they mention kWh/t which will become the key metric for material handling in the years to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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An XE215EV top tethered excavator working in steel recycling. These are cheaper to purchase and run than a diesel excavator where conditions allow.
The 42t battery electric XE380EV with an 800kWh battery for a 6 hour run time. The first diesel electric hybrid version will be released next year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
An interesting dual boom, 18t lift telehandler from Socma. It can stack containers three high and just the ticket for devanning heavy loads from containers offering a 6.3t lift at 3.5m forward distance.
Our most surprising product introduced in 2025 was the XCMG hybrid wheel loader range. It’s not often you pitch a product to save the owner 30% in diesel consumption and it ends up saving him 70%. The kicker is that in the 30t size they are also cheaper to purchase than an equivalent diesel loader.
Quite remarkable.
Quite remarkable.
