Lumina Electric Dozer Prototype Officially Revealed

Keen followers of the Digger Man Blog may recall that on May 16th we shared some images of a brand new electric powered dozer, well now the company has released a promotional video of the radical new machine.

The Lumina ML6 Moonlander was demonstrated in public for the very first time on May 21^st 2025 to a gathering of industry press and technology specific media people in San Francisco.

This was a big day for this start up business, headed by tech entrepreneur and CEO Ahmed Shubber, with huge ambitions to make an impact on the world of heavy construction equipment, specifically electric powered and autonomous machines.

The tractor was assembled in secrecy in the UK, with parts coming in from nearly 200 different suppliers.

David Wright, Lumina's head of UK operations, told the gathered media, that the Moonlander has the same footprint as Caterpillar's D6, medium-sized bulldozer, but can push the same amount of load as a much larger D9.

Wright said the blade attached to the Moonlander's body at the demonstration is the same size as the blade typically seen on a D9 tractor.

"A D6 could not push that blade," he said. "We can have that blade full of material, full dozing seven to nine cubic meters of material, for eight to 10 hours."

Wright said a charging station would be required on a project site.

"It can charge at 300 kilowatts, so we can go from zero to full in an hour and a quarter," he said.

"Even if you spend all morning heavy dozing and you're a bit worried about how much juice you've used — well, your operators are going to take a lunch break, right? Plug it in, and in 30 minutes, you've put 50% of power back in again," Wright said.

Shubber is taking a Tesla approach to his visionary new look at construction equipment, with a 100-tonne excavator said to be the next reveal.

We look forward to these developments coming down the line.

Checkout the promotional video from Lumina below.