If you’re a middle-aged suburbanite looking to throw down the landscaping gauntlet on a rival dad, the Elgo-Plus Springer Max-EB battery electric micro excavator is absolutely the one-up yard machine you’ve been waiting for.

Picture the scene. You’ve just put your new wide-deck electric Deere to bed after one of the first mows of the season, and you look across the street and see Electrek‘s own Micah Toll, rolling a freakin’ Chinese electric excavator off a container making you look like a chump. What are you gonna do now? Dig with a shovel?

Imagine what your wife would say – or your kids! Who are you kidding? They’re his wife and his kids now. He has won.

If you’re under forty I’m sure all that seems like crazy gibberish, but I assure you: suburban gardening and landscaping is a subtle, competitive, and brutal determiner of the social pecking order in huge swaths of middle America, and I guarantee at least one of Micah’s neighbors clenched their jaw in rage when they saw those electric excavators and wheel loaders turn up. And for those dear weirdos, my dear weirdos, I have found the appropriate response: the Elgo-Plus Springer Max B electric excavator.

European design, American hardware

The Elgo-Plus Springer Max is sold throughout Europe with Vanguard V-twin power, but the Spring Max-EB ditches the 14 hp ICE deal in favor of a 3 kW 48V electric motor from Benevelli powered by a pair of 5 kWh Briggs & Stratton Vanguard Lithium-Ion batteries that are Made in the USA, and good for up to five hours of continuous work with a four hour charge time on 220/240V Level 2 power.

And if that’s not good enough for you, there’s a newer model reportedly in development that uses two Vanguard 48V 7.0-kWh fixed battery packs (Fi7.0) capable of fully charging in under two hours.

“Having already worked with Briggs & Stratton for more than three years, we had every confidence in choosing their Vanguard batteries to power our electric mini-digger,” Andrzej Zielinski, CEO of Elgo-Plus told Power Progress. “The Vanguard Fi7.0 batteries answered every requirement and have delivered excellent results in terms of productivity and performance.”

The Elgo-Plus Springer Max-EB electric excavator is available now throughout mainland Europe, and ships with a Danfoss Turolla shhark [sic] 6cc hydraulic pump, Vanguard 1050W onboard charger, along with three buckets (incl. a 70 cm grading bucket), a ripping tool, LED lights, and a charging cable for 20,800 Euro (!).

It’s not cheap, but it’s bound to raise the bar in the suburban landscaping world, while its smooth, quiet, and vibration-free operation will surely make it a favorite on construction sites, as well.

SOURCE | IMAGES: Elgo-Plus.