{"id":134786,"date":"2022-01-27T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/royal-bam-announces-worlds-first-fully-electric-road-paver-and-massive-270-kwh-batteries"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T22:22:44","slug":"royal-bam-announces-worlds-first-fully-electric-road-paver-and-massive-270-kwh-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/royal-bam-announces-worlds-first-fully-electric-road-paver-and-massive-270-kwh-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Royal BAM announces \u2018world\u2019s first\u2019 fully electric road paver and massive 270 kWh batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/royal-bam-announces-worlds-first-fully-electric-road-paver-and-massive-270-kwh-batteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Royal BAM announces \u2018world\u2019s first\u2019 fully electric asphalt road paver with dual electric motors and a pair of massive 270 kWh batteries!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dutch civil engineering company Royal BAM has announced a fully-electric asphalt spreading road paver, which will save more than 93,000 kilograms of CO\u2082 and 115,000 grams of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/greenvehicles\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle\">nitrous oxide emissions<\/a> compared to its <strong>bio-diesel<\/strong> counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Working together with partners at Wirtgen and New Electric, BAM has replaced the vegetable-oil sourced, bio-diesel powered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volvopenta.com\/en-us\/industrial\/benefits\/emission-technology\/stage-v\/\">Volvo Penta Stage V<\/a> engines with an electric drive, consisting of two \u201csmartly switched electric motors\u201d that pull electrons from a massive 270 kWh battery. For those you keeping score, <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2020\/08\/26\/lucid-range-113-kwh-battery-pack\/\">that\u2019s more than twice as big as the battery used in the 500-mile range Lucid Air electric sedan<\/a>. (!) <\/p>\n<p>Once the work is done and the road is paved, the Royal BAM machine can power up it\u2019s <em>second<\/em> 270 kWh battery (!!) and drive itself to the next project, or back to the fleet depot after a long working day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal BAM announces \u2018world\u2019s first\u2019 fully electric asphalt road paver with dual electric motors and a pair of massive 270 kWh batteries! Dutch civil engineering company Royal BAM has announced a fully-electric asphalt spreading road paver, which will save more than 93,000 kilograms of CO\u2082 and 115,000 grams of nitrous oxide emissions compared to its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}