Caterpillar is utilizing ConExpo-Con/Agg 2026 in Las Vegas to formally launch a number of additions and upgrades to its tools vary, with a brand new compact radius excavator, two next-generation motor grader fashions and its second electrical drive medium dozer all on present.
The Cat 319 is a brand new 19–20-ton compact radius excavator slotting between the established 315 and 325 fashions – a measurement class Caterpillar has not beforehand occupied. The machine made its international debut at Bauma 2025 and is making its first North American present look at ConExpo.
Constructed on the Subsequent Technology platform and centred on a wider 2.8 m (9.2 ft) undercarriage, the 319 is designed to deal with lifting and stability calls for that clients mentioned the 315 couldn’t meet, whereas providing a extra compact and cost-effective various to the rising 325.
Brian Stellbrink, senior market skilled at Caterpillar, mentioned the broader undercarriage was central to the machine’s attraction. “That width is all about further stability,” he mentioned. “It offers the 319 with the aptitude to deal with TRS17 – the rotation work device attachment that aids precision and helps enhance jobsite effectivity – in addition to a variable angle growth or blade, but stays comfortably inside the most transport width of three.0 m.”
That wider stance additionally delivers as much as a 7% increase in lifting capability in comparison with the 317, together with the choice to run a 1 m³ basic obligation bucket.
The 319 carries the cumulative good thing about eight years of growth on the Subsequent Technology platform. “Its efficiency, stability and productiveness are a strong mixture for building, utility work, street upkeep and land clearing jobs,” mentioned Stellbrink, “whereas bringing all the advantages and sights of the Subsequent Technology platform to the compact radius line-up.”
Security applied sciences embrace an optionally available 360-degree digicam, Cat Detect people-detection and a number of track-shoe choices. Key specs: working weight 19,700 kg (Europe) / 20,000 kg (North America); max digging depth 6,550 mm (21.5 ft); max attain at floor line 9,190 mm (30.2 ft).
150 and 160 motor graders be part of the next-gen platform
Additionally introduced on the present are the Cat 150 and 160 motor graders, the most recent fashions to maneuver to the Subsequent Technology platform that Caterpillar started rolling out with the 120 and 140 earlier within the cycle. The 150 is offered with joystick or lever controls; the 160 comes with joystick as customary.
Eric Kohout, senior product guide for motor graders at Caterpillar, mentioned the brand new fashions keep the size of the machines they exchange whereas bringing significant positive aspects in energy, effectivity and operator expertise. “The Subsequent Technology platform is all about effectivity, productiveness and operator consolation,” he mentioned. “These new fashions obtain these goals in some ways.”
Each fashions function a nine-speed transmission with a brand new end gear for exact final-pass grading, a totally redesigned cab with bigger home windows — first seen on the upgraded 120 and 140 — and a 10-inch touchscreen integrating optionally available applied sciences together with Cat Grade, 360-degree cameras and Individuals Detection. The 150 carries a C9.3 engine producing 195 kW (261 hp) with a normal 12-foot moldboard; the 160 produces 206 kW (276 hp) with a 14-foot moldboard. Each are upgradeable by two toes respectively. Working weights are 19,688 kg (150 joystick) and 19,853 kg (160).
Kohout mentioned joystick controls have been a big ergonomic step ahead. “Decreasing operator fatigue is essential to sustaining and bettering productiveness, so transferring management into two, three-axis joysticks fully redefines operator consolation.” The Cat 150 joystick variant is scheduled to launch in European markets within the second half of 2026, with full international availability for all configurations to comply with.
D8 XE: Caterpillar’s second electrical drive medium dozer
Rounding out the main {hardware} information is the D8 XE, Caterpillar’s second high-drive electrical drive medium dozer, following the D6 XE which launched in 2018. Sam Meeker, market skilled for medium track-type tractors (D4–D8) at Caterpillar, set out the machine’s worth in acquainted three-legged phrases: decrease gasoline consumption, extra productiveness and lowered upkeep value — the identical proposition that has underpinned the XE line for the reason that D7E first launched electrical drive to the dozer market in 2009.
The drivetrain pairs a C15 engine with a totally sealed, liquid-cooled generator feeding a single motor through an inverter, with two separate cooling circuits — one for the engine coolant and one for the ability electronics. Gas financial savings are most pronounced in medium-load functions. “Within the 60 to 80% load vary, that’s the place we decide up loads of effectivity,” Meeker mentioned, citing a composite saving of round 6% throughout the total software unfold, with larger positive aspects in lighter-duty cycles.
Meeker was eager to emphasize the serviceability overlap with the usual D8. “Gas filters, fluids — all the opposite kind of upkeep elements are going to be similar to a D8,” he mentioned. “So that you don’t need to inventory two separate units of filters and fluids.”
New options embrace software profiles that routinely reconfigure blade and transmission settings by working mode, 360 Imaginative and prescient with person-detect and movement inhibit, a brand new heavy-duty observe with built-in put on monitoring, and an optionally available single-shank ripper with two-button Auto Rip expertise.
