The Rust Belt start up looking to ‘do a Tesla’ on compact construction equipment
08 July 2025
US-based start-up HeavyTech is looking to make the mini excavator equivalent of a Tesla. The Indiana-based firm says its ability to pursue radical design changes and challenge entrenched assumptions will allow it to take on established North American manufacturers as well as European and Chinese rivals in the EV compact equipment sector. Chad Elmore meets the founders and finds out how they plan to do it.
Davide De Silvio and Mike Terzo (Photo: HeavyTech)
From their offices in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, the founders of start-up Heavytech are constantly reminded of a long-passed heyday of US manufacturing.
Once a booming manufacturing town, known for supplying nearly 90 per cent of North America’s magnet wire market, like many towns in the so-called Rust Belt, over…
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