Sunward’s Electric 25-tonner Looking Good

In October 2023 we visited the European headquarters of Sunward in Tessenderlo in Belgium, where we were able to try out a number of machines among them was the SWE 240FE electric powered hydraulic excavator.

As someone who has always been rather sceptical of electric powered vehicles, but I have to say that Sunward electric machine literally blew my mind with its power, performance and overall smoothness of operation, and it really was a pleasure to operate in every aspect.

The only thing that spoiled it for me was the visual styling of the machine, with the rear end looking very box like to create space for the batteries.

Photo: The original SWE 240FED machine in Belgium. (Credit: Dirk Bömer)

I was delighted to discover that the latest version of the 25-tonne class SWE 240FE has received a stylish new makeover, and with the continued improvement in battery technology they no longer need so much room to store them, so the excavator now looks the same as a conventional model.

Sunward Europe has recently posted a video on one of these machines at work in a building materials recycling centre in Düsseldorf, Germany. We get the lowdown on the machine from our good friend Krister Gräb, who is a service engineer for Sunward, checkout the video below.