Mobile charging tackles electric equipment barrier
13 July 2026
One of the biggest barriers to the adoption of electric compact equipment remains stubbornly practical – how do you charge machines on fast-moving urban sites with little or no grid connection? One solution is to treat electricity like diesel – and deliver it when and where it is needed.
The construction industry has spent years asking whether electric compact equipment can perform like diesel. Increasingly, the answer is yes. The harder question is what happens when the battery runs low.
For Ed Lea, founder of Charge Fairy, that question first came into focus not on a construction site,…
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