Is Your Warehouse Suitable for Electrification?
As someone working in or owning a transportation or warehousing company, have you already converted your warehouse to an electrified one?
Currently, a significant number of warehouses and logistics centers use internal combustion forklifts such as diesel and LPG. Diesel counterbalance forklifts are often noisy and emit large amounts of exhaust fumes, easily causing noise and air pollution, which can negatively impact the health of warehouse workers, making them unsuitable for indoor use. LPG forklifts require gasoline or natural gas as their power source. The daily maintenance and energy consumption costs of both types of forklifts are substantial, typically accounting for about one-third of warehouse and logistics operations. To better reduce costs and improve the working environment, many are adopting electric forklifts and intelligent warehouse solutions.
Advantages of Electric Forklifts and Electrified Warehouses:
Environmental Protection and Energy Saving
Electric forklifts are industrial handling vehicles that primarily use electricity as their energy source, featuring renewable energy and environmental friendliness and energy saving. Furthermore, warehouses using electric forklifts generate less noise and air pollution, creating a quiet and comfortable environment for employees, which helps improve employee efficiency and motivation.
Low Cost
The initial purchase cost of electric forklifts is lower than that of diesel forklifts. Within the 1-5 ton range, electric forklifts are cheaper than internal combustion counterbalance forklifts. You can inquire about electric forklift pricing.
Electricity is cheaper than energy sources like gasoline and diesel, and it’s a renewable energy source. In countries and regions with severe oil shortages, electricity has become an indispensable energy source. Replacing your diesel forklifts with electric forklifts eliminates the need to constantly monitor oil prices and reduces dependence on these non-renewable energy sources, lowering your logistics warehouse operating costs and making your prices more competitive.
Furthermore, electric forklifts have lower daily maintenance costs. There’s no need to replace air filters and fuel filters, saving you daily maintenance costs and time. How to maintain an electric forklift and battery? Simply follow the maintenance manual and regular charging.
Intelligent Management
Electric forklifts can achieve fully intelligent management, including intelligent management of the entire forklift, the forklift battery, and the entire warehouse.
Easy and Responsive Operation
The ease of operation of electric forklifts is very user-friendly for those new to the logistics and warehousing industries. Unlike diesel forklifts, electric forklifts don’t require gear shifting, and their gear selector is integrated into the steering wheel, essentially a factory-installed electronic hydraulic gear selector. You only need ten minutes to learn how to use an electric forklift by following the operator’s manual.
Powered directly by electrical signals and current, the operation is very smooth, unlike internal combustion engine forklifts which are prone to stalling and power imbalances. This makes the motor highly sensitive, allowing for more precise picking of goods than diesel forklifts.
How to retrofit and upgrade your warehouse?
You can upgrade your existing material handling equipment. As is well known, there are many types of electric forklifts, including electric counterbalance forklifts, electric stackers, reach trucks, and electric pallet trucks.
You can upgrade to electric material handling industrial vehicles based on your existing equipment.
Diesel forklifts can be replaced with electric counterbalance forklifts. When your diesel forklift is nearing the end of its life, consider purchasing an electric forklift of the same or larger tonnage. Our electric forklifts are currently on sale; please contact us for pricing information.
For stackers, consider purchasing some small electric stackers. These electric stackers use lead-acid or lithium iron phosphate batteries, can be used in narrow aisles, have a lifting capacity of approximately 1-3 tons, and a lifting height of 3-6 meters. You can choose between a standing electric forklift or a pedestrian stacker.
Manual pallet trucks can be replaced with electric pallet trucks. They use electric drive and motor lifting, and are equipped with LCD displays and combination locks. Electric pallet trucks are a more labor-saving material handling tool, improving work efficiency.
Reach Trucks are narrow-aisle electric forklifts, suitable for high-density warehousing and logistics centers. If you have requirements for warehouse space utilization, you can use this type of electric forklift. It can lift lighter objects up to 13-meter-high racks, enabling three-dimensional warehouse design. This electric forklift is a high-end physical handling vehicle, but it requires a relatively flat and clean warehouse due to its smaller chassis and wheels. It is also suitable for some flat concrete surfaces.
Disadvantages of Electric Forklifts
Upgrading your warehouse to electric power will save you a significant amount of money on purchase and fuel costs, reducing production and operating costs and enhancing your company’s competitiveness. However, what are the costs? The disadvantage of electric forklifts is that they take longer to charge than diesel forklifts, resulting in shorter operating times. How can these problems be solved?
1. Increase the battery capacity of the electric forklift and use lithium batteries that support fast charging.
2. Purchase an additional battery for alternating use, extending the operating time.
3. Utilize rest and idle time to charge the electric forklift.
Despite these disadvantages, the benefits and environmental friendliness of electric forklifts continue to attract many buyers. Electric forklifts are becoming increasingly popular.
