I’m not sure how true that is, with a few companies offering electric models, but I won’t hold their feet to the fire too hard if they’ll at least give me a test ride. The Chinese vendor seems pretty proud of this thing, describing it as “the world’s first purely electric bulldozer.” Somehow that’s not very helpful, and I’m just imagining this thing sounding like my knock-off Roomba as it mows down a shanty. The decibel rating is 76dB, which a conversion chart tells me is approximately equal to the noise of a vacuum cleaner. It’s not particularly fast, with a top speed of just 10 km/h (6 mph), but it sure will look imposing as it slowly and silently rolls up on you. Considering that electric motors generally outperform diesel engines of comparable power ratings, this electric opposer dozer might just be packing some real oomph. Since this one is already half the weight of the really big boys, having half the horsepower isn’t that unreasonable. It carries a 145 kW (194 hp) electric motor, which frankly seems a bit underpowered for a bulldozer, but I’m going to let it slide. That’s still a pretty big battery at around four times the size found in an average electric car – or egregiously around one times the size of the battery found in an electric HUMMER. Well, not really “all day.” More like four to five hours of heavy-duty dozing and six to eight hours of “medium to light working,” which I imagine is the category that terrorizing the neighborhood falls under. It carries a 240 kWh battery on board for all-day mess-you-up dozing needs. Sure, it might weigh barely half of a D9 Caterpillar, but what it lacks in poundage, it makes up for with a heart of gold. Weighing in at 18,750 kilograms (or just over 41,000 freedom units), this Big Bertha of an e-bulldozer is ready for some heavy lifting. It’s also perfect for this week’s Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column, though I’d call this one more awesome than weird. Are you the kind of person that regularly has major demolition jobs that require a level of aggression and violence that hand tools simply can’t provide, but you also care about the environment and not destroying the only lifeboat humanity currently has? Then, boy, do I have the perfect electric bulldozer for you.

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