According to the data of the Industrial Vehicles Branch of the China Construction Machinery Industry Association, it has reached 22,874 units in 2006, an increase of nearly 38% compared with 2005. The data shows that electric forklifts will be increasingly favored by users. However, in general, the market share of electric forklifts is only 21%, which is quite different from the ratio of electric forklifts in the European and American markets. Galvanized Steel Pipe,Galvanized Pipe & Fittings,Galvanized Pipe Fittings,Welding Galvanized Pipe Shandong Jianlong Special Steel Co., Ltd. , https://www.jianlongsteelpipe.com
The main reasons for the small proportion of electric forklifts in the domestic market are:
The electric forklift with the same load capacity has higher cost for one-time purchase than the internal combustion forklift. (The current market price of the imported 3-ton forklift in the domestic market is about 130,000, and the price of a 3-ton forklift imported from a mid-end market. At around 210,000, including batteries and chargers, the purchase price is about 80,000.)
Battery replacement and charging confusion.
Electric forklift maintenance technical requirements are higher.
In fact, apart from the first point, it is indeed a major reason. The latter two points are related to the use and maintenance. If you have received good maintenance knowledge training and good after-sales service support, the next two points are Can't be confused by users.
What needs to be highlighted here is that many of the advantages of electric forklifts are not noticed. In addition to the low noise and exhaust-free emissions, the advantages of electric forklifts are that the use and maintenance costs of electric forklifts are very high compared to internal combustion forklifts. Big advantage.
The cost:
The cost of electricity consumption is much lower than the cost of diesel or petroleum liquefied gas. If we compare a forklift with a load capacity of three tons, the diesel consumption of a diesel internal combustion forklift for each shift (according to 40 litres of diesel per shift, the vehicle consumes 5.5 litres of diesel per hour for 60 VDI cycles) The cost is about 196 yuan (4.9 yuan per liter of diesel). And if a three-ton electric forklift uses an 80-volt 500AH battery (the battery's storage capacity is 80X500=40 kWh), operate one shift (80% discharge, according to 120% supplementary charge ratio, need to consume electricity) The cost of 40 degrees) is about 140 yuan (calculated according to the current industrial electricity consumption of 3.5 yuan per degree). You can save 56 yuan a day, and if you calculate it for 250 working days a year, you can save 14,000 yuan in energy costs a year. If you use 5 years to calculate, you can save 70,000 yuan.
Because of its simple and flexible operation control, the electric forklift is much lighter than the internal combustion forklift. Its electric steering system, acceleration control system, hydraulic control system and brake system are all controlled by electrical signals, greatly reducing The labor intensity of the operator is very helpful for improving the efficiency of work and the accuracy of the work.
Maintenance costs:
During the maintenance cycle, the maintenance cycle of the electric forklift is two to three times longer than that of the internal combustion forklift. Usually, the maintenance cycle of the internal combustion forklift is up to 500 working hours, and many of the electric forklifts can reach the maintenance cycle of more than 1000 hours.
Maintenance and maintenance, electric forklift maintenance is much easier than internal combustion forklift maintenance, usually only need to lubricate some joint activities such as gantry bearings, steering axle and other major inspection and cleaning, up to every 2000 or 3000 hours To replace the hydraulic oil, gear oil and hydraulic filter, the other materials are very limited. In addition to the lubrication of the internal combustion forklift, the engine oil and oil filter should be replaced every 500 hours (usually every 300 hours). The hydraulic oil, oil, transmission oil and these oil filters should be replaced every 1000 hours. Device. Also replace the belt (engine timing belt, generator belt, etc.). If you still use a three-ton forklift as an example, the maintenance cost of the internal combustion forklift should be 3,000-4,000 yuan (material cost only), and the maintenance cost of the electric forklift is only 1,000 – according to the annual operation of 2000 hours. 1,500 yuan (material cost).
The time required for maintenance, because the maintenance interval of the electric forklift is much longer than that of the internal combustion forklift, and the time required for each maintenance is much less than that of the internal combustion forklift, which greatly saves the labor cost required for maintenance. What is more substantial is that the downtime of the forklift is greatly shortened, so that the economic benefits brought by the improved efficiency of the forklift are difficult to calculate.
The service life of the battery of the electric forklift truck is 1500 charge and discharge cycles, which translates into a working hour of about 10,000 hours for the forklift truck. This is also equivalent to the engine overhaul of an internal combustion forklift. In this case, the battery of the electric forklift is replaced. The cost is close to the cost of overhauling the engine, but the speed of replacing the battery is much faster than the speed of overhauling the engine (or the speed of replacing the engine), and it also shows the advantage of time efficiency.
At this point, we can see that although we are purchasing electric forklifts, the cost is 30% higher than that of internal combustion forklifts of the same load capacity, but the total cost of use can be directly measured by data. In fact, the total cost of using an electric forklift truck is much lower than that of an internal combustion forklift.
On the one hand, more and more forklifts operate indoors, so that the requirements for vehicle exhaust emissions are getting higher and higher. In Europe and the United States, strict regulations have been imposed, and internal combustion forklifts are prohibited indoors. Even though the laws and regulations in China have not yet strictly restricted the use of internal combustion forklifts indoors, the advantages of low noise and no exhaust emissions of electric vehicles have been recognized by many users compared with internal combustion forklifts.
In addition, there are some technical reasons for choosing an electric forklift. The rapid development of electronic control technology makes the operation of electric forklifts more and more comfortable, the wider the scope of application, the more and more solutions to logistics, such as electric pallet trucks, electric stackers, reach trucks, three-way narrow Channel forklifts and the like are not possible with internal combustion forklifts, but electric forklifts solve these problems, especially in warehousing logistics system solutions.
In terms of these aspects, the market demand for electric forklifts will grow faster and faster, and the market share of electric forklifts will also increase. 
Advantages of electric forklifts