It’s the first question contractors ask about battery electric equipment.
“How do I charge this machine if I don’t want to tow it back to a power source overnight?”
Until recently, the answers weren’t very good. But at this year’s ConExpo, most OEMs had a solution that fits on a trailer or can be towed. These consist of traditional generators that run off of natural gas (and thus produce less CO2 than diesel generators) or true net zero battery packs with enough kilowatts to charge multiple machines.
Moxion is in this latter category. You may recognize the Moxion name from the announcement just before ConExpo that the company had secured a multi-million-dollar deal with Sunbelt Rentals to deliver more than 600 of their new MP-75/600 portable battery units over the next year. The deal put Moxion on everyone’s radar and validated two important trends in the drive to electrification.
The company builds its equipment in Richmond, California, and started producing units for Sunbelt Rentals in April. A second factory will come online in the summer of 2024. “We’re vertically integrated, meaning we design, engineer and manufacture all the core technologies that go into these products,” says Paul Huelskamp, Moxion’s CEO and co-founder.
Paul Huelskamp, CEO Moxion (left) and Joe Hornburg, director of fleet management: specialty, Sunbelt Rentals, with the MP-75/600 at ConExpo.Moxion
