Swedish heavy equipment brand HUDDIG has given its 1370 hybrid wheel loader platform a major battery upgrade for the new model year, boosting its battery capacity from 44 kWh to fully 61 kWh – an impressive, 40% upgrade! HUDDIG’s 1370 TIGON hybrid is an incredibly flexible machine that can be equipped for a wide range of work. In addition to being able to do everything a conventional wheel loader can do, it can be fitted with a loader-mounted crane (LCC), a bucket lift with an insulated basket, and even be operated via remote control. The killer app for this machine, though, is a high-capacity traction battery that enables the loader to operate as a fully electric machine. And this isn’t a gimmick or a concept for HUDDIG, either – the company has a deployed fleet of 41 first-generation machines that had collectively operated for 96,306 hours and saved an estimated 140,439 gallons of diesel before the launch of the second-gen machine. “With 100,000 hours of actual operation, we’ve had a very solid foundation for our development …