Fossil-sourced diesel is no longer welcome at the party. It is noisy and polluting, and diesel-powered lifting is increasingly being banned from city centres. Julian Champkin finds that batteries may be the power of the future - and indeed of the present. It is here already... The future is here, and it is electric. Not only that, it is battery. Small cranes, minis and spiders have been electric-powered - by cable or battery - for years now; they are silent, they are emissions-free, they don't pump out noxious fumes or emit headache-inducing decibels so they can work indoors in enclosed spaces and close to the public - in a shopping mall, for example, even while it is being used by the public; why would anyone use internal combustion for such tasks? Think big cranes, though, lattice crawlers and the like, and you think diesel. It is time to change that way of thinking.
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