Volvo Construction Equipment making its 48V DC charging protocol public

Volvo Development Tools (Volvo CE) is making available its 48V DC protocol for electrical charging options in a bid to speed up electrification and make it simpler for patrons with a multi-branded fleet.

There’s presently no trade normal for 48V DC charging options—the facility required for electrical compact machines—which implies clients presently seemingly must supply a number of totally different chargers if they’ve a multi-branded fleet.

Volvo CE has subsequently opted to publish its personal brand-agnostic software program protocol, in addition to plug specs, used on its 48V off-board DC chargers. This permits different OEMs and suppliers to make use of it within the growth of their very own charging options for compact machines.

With this transfer, Volvo CE goals to facilitate and speed up the electromobility transformation by serving to the broader trade create extra charging options—primarily based on a standard protocol—for the good thing about clients transitioning to emission-free options.

We wish to contribute to a standardized, dependable and environment friendly electrical ecosystem that makes it straightforward for our clients to go electrical! As we speak, missing a regular brand-agnostic charging interface for compact machines, our clients will want totally different chargers for various machine manufacturers. By making our charging interface public, we hope that we’ll see increasingly charging answer suppliers and different machine OEMs utilizing one and the identical charging protocol – shifting us a step nearer to an trade normal for the good thing about clients all over the place.

—Fredrik Tjernström, Electromobility Options Gross sales at Volvo CE

A 48V energy provide is designed for the smallest vary of compact building machines. For Volvo CE, this presently applies to the ECR18 Electrical, EC18 Electrical and ECR25 Electrical compact excavators, the L20 Electrical and L25 Electrical compact wheel loaders and the DD25 Electrical asphalt compactor.

For heavier tools, the usage of a 600V energy provide is required. There’s already an trade normal protocol for this voltage that has been designed by the automotive trade.