Case launches ‘industry first’ electric backhoe loader

Case Construction Equipment launched its first electric vehicle (EV) products last year - the CX15EV mini excavator and the SL22EV small articulated loader - and the company has more in store for 2024, starting with the commercial release of the industry's first purpose-built electric backhoe loader. After years of design and development, the new 580EV retains the dimensional loading and digging specifications and delivers the same breakout forces as the four-wheel-drive, 97-hp (72-kW) 580SN diesel model.

Case first debuted its Project Zeus electric backhoe concept at CONEXPO in 2020 (www.sae.org/news/2020/03/conexpo---case-580-ev-backhoe), but the production 580EV is a vastly different machine than what was on display in Las Vegas.