This presentation features an experimental activity carried out at Purdue’s Maha Fluid Power Research Center on an actuation system designed to achieve high efficiency and low noise emissions in battery-electric off-road vehicles. The actuation system is tested on the implements of a skid-steer loader, using a novel four-quadrant electric-hydraulic unit. The electric unit is a brushless synchronous reluctance machine, and the hydraulic unit is a four-quadrant continuous-contact gear machine. Such a supply unit is used in a closed-circuit hydraulic architecture that combines primary control and bleed-off control to meet control requirements and optimize the sizing of the supply unit.