Hybrid Technology Enables Up To 25 Percent Fuel Savings

Hybrid Technology on the new Cat® Hybrid Excavators delivers 25% fuel savings and 50% greater efficiency at 100% power.

How The Hybrid Excavator System Works

The Cat Hybrid Excavators use a new hydraulic hybrid technology to capture and reuse energy. The benefits include lower fuel costs, reduced exhaust emissions and a smaller carbon footprint—all without any compromise in production, reliability, durability or operability in all applications.

The hybrid excavator design uses three building-block technologies to achieve these results:

  1. Conserve fuel with engine power management via the Cat Electronic Standardized Programmable pump
  2. Optimize performance using restriction management via the patented Cat Adaptive Control System valve
  3. Reuse energy via the hydraulic hybrid swing, which captures the excavator's upper structure swing brake energy in accumulators and then releases the energy during swing acceleration

Hydraulic hybrid system is a simple, reliable, and cost-effective solution that will significantly reduce your cost per ton.

Learn more about how the system works from your local Cat dealer.