Wiesbauer takes Germany’s first fully electric Spierings City Boy

First City Boy on the German market

Spierings has handed over the crane at its Oss factory to the family-owned rental company from Bietigheim-Bissingen, which becomes the first crane rental firm in Germany to run the City Boy. For Spierings, the delivery is a long-awaited breakthrough for its fully electric crane concept in what has been one of its most important export markets for decades.

The SK487-AT3 City Boy pairs the folding-tower concept of a Spierings mobile tower crane with a battery-electric driveline. Both road travel and crane operation are possible without local exhaust emissions, and at just 2.55 metres wide the three-axle machine is aimed squarely at inner-city sites where space, noise and emissions rules increasingly dictate what equipment can be used.

“We want to actively help shape the future of our industry. For us, this means not only keeping an eye on new technologies but also deliberately integrating them into our fleet. The City Boy enables us to combine high-performance lifting technology with the requirements for lower-emission and quieter construction site operations.”

— Florian Wiesbauer, Wiesbauer

A long development road

The handover follows a drawn-out development programme during which the City Boy was repeatedly reworked and optimised — a process that took longer than either party had originally planned. Wiesbauer stuck with the concept throughout.

“Although the development took longer than originally planned, we have always believed in the concept. We now look forward to gaining experience in real-world operations and demonstrating the potential of fully electric lifting technology on German construction sites,”

— Florian Wiesbauer, Wiesbauer

Spierings CEO Koos Spierings called the first German delivery “a particularly important milestone for both companies”, adding that the manufacturer is proud “of the City Boy as it stands today and of all the technical developments and improvements we have achieved along the way”.

Straight to work

Wiesbauer will put the crane to work on projects across Germany in the coming months, with urban jobsites and confined locations the natural hunting ground for the compact electric machine. The two companies present the delivery as the start of a wider roll-out of the City Boy on the German market.