Like most diesel engine manufacturers looking toward the future, Germany's Hatz has branched out into alternative power sources, including electrification.
At Bauma 2025 in Munich, the company demonstrated its Concept Cube 2.0, a remote-controlled electric vibratory plate compactor.
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Operated with a portable line-of-sight remote control panel or an app from a smartphone or tablet, the Cube also transmits machine performance and health information via telematics.
Both the handle and the remote controller can be hidden away on the machine depending on the mode of use, remote or conventional, respectively. Global communications manager Michael Hatz gave Construction Equipment senior editor Frank Raczon an exclusive demo.
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Frank Raczon has covered and influenced the equipment industry for 35 years, including 15 years as senior editor of Construction Equipment, and marketing, advertising, and public relations work with the industry's top manufacturers. In addition to authoring "Caterpillar: Modern Earthmoving Marvels" (Motorbooks, 2015), he has won numerous awards in his career, highlighted by nods from the Construction Writers Association, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the Business Marketing Association, and BtoB magazine. Raczon has also won a number of awards from publishing peer groups such as ASBPE and TABPI.