That engine is smaller by a liter than the D7R, Caterpillar's comparable diesel dozer. Net power output from the electric drive is 235 horsepower, and the D7E has almost 100,000 pounds of pulling ...

Caterpillar electric D7E crawler dozer is the first electrically driven dozer using modern alternating-current (AC) technology, and Cat claims it will move up to 25 percent more material per gallon of ...

One of the most interesting launches at the ConExpo-Con/Agg exhibition in Las Vegas last month was Caterpillar's first ever electric drive dozer. The D7E model marks the company's introduction into a ...

The midsize dozer is not a high- volume seller in North ... Initially, the D7E will be sold in North America, Europe and Japan. The D7R will be available through mid-2010. Taking away the ...

Cat will continue to sell the D7R through mid-2010 ... the trademark design because they benefit more from it than smaller dozers. The D7E's electric motors also enable the sprockets to perform ...

IS IT THIRSTY? Not for a bulldozer. The D7E pushes 25 percent more m.p.g. material per gallon, that is than its nonhybrid counterpart, the D7R. AT the controls of a machine that stands 11 ...

Aka, the dozer formerly known as the Cat D6K2 ... and the D7 replaced the D7E and D7R. So, yes. The much-loved model at the heart of this discussion has a new name and there are lots of folks ...

D7E dozers are working in many applications throughout North America, Europe and Australia. K&E Excavating of Salem, Ore., purchased a D7E earlier this year to replace a D7R. “We like to operate ...

The bulldozer, known as the D7R-II, will be semi-autonomous and controlled ... The remote control function means operators can move and drive the dozer behind covered and concealed positions ...