According to the data of China Construction Machinery Industry Association Industrial Vehicle Branch, the market proportion of electric forklifts is only 21% in general, which is still quite different from the proportion of electric forklifts in European and American markets. The main reasons for the small proportion of electric forklifts in the domestic market are:

1. Compared with the internal combustion forklift, the one-time purchase cost of the electric forklift with the same load capacity is relatively high (at present, the market price of the first-line brand 3-ton internal combustion forklift in the domestic market is about 70000, and the market price of a first-line brand 3-ton electric forklift is about 120000, including the battery and charger. The purchase price difference is about 50000).

2. Confusion of battery replacement and charging.

3, electric forklift maintenance technology requirements are higher.

In fact, in addition to the first point is indeed a major reason, the latter two points are related to the use and maintenance of knowledge, if after a good maintenance of knowledge training and manufacturers good after-sales service support, the latter two points are can not become the user's confusion. What needs to be highlighted here is that many of the advantages of electric forklifts have not been noticed. In addition to the characteristics of low noise and no exhaust emissions, the use and maintenance costs of electric forklifts are relatively internal combustion forklifts. Big advantage.

1. Cost of use:

The consumption cost of electric energy is much lower than that of diesel oil or liquefied petroleum gas. If we compare a forklift with a load capacity of three tons, the cost of diesel consumed by a diesel internal combustion forklift per shift (calculated on the basis of 40 liters of diesel consumed per shift and 5.5 liters of diesel consumed by the vehicle for 60 VDI cycles per hour) is about 196 yuan (4.9 yuan per liter of diesel). However, if a three-ton electric forklift uses an 80-volt 500AH battery (the stored power of the battery is 80X500=40 kW hours), the cost of operating a shift (80% discharge, according to the 120 supplementary charging ratio, the power consumption is about 40 degrees) is about 40 yuan (calculated according to the current industrial step electricity price per degree of 1 yuan). You can save 156 yuan a day, and if you calculate it according to the 250 working day, you can save 39000 yuan in energy costs a year. If you use 5 years to calculate, you can save 195000 yuan.

Electric forklift because of its simple operation and control, flexible, the operating intensity of its operator is much lighter than that of internal combustion forklift. Its electric steering system, acceleration control system, hydraulic control system and brake system are all controlled by electrical signals, which greatly reduces the labor intensity of the operator, which is of great help to improve its work efficiency and accuracy.

2. Maintenance costs:

The maintenance cycle of electric forklifts is two to three times longer than that of internal combustion forklifts. Usually, the longest maintenance cycle of internal combustion forklifts is 500 working hours, while many electric forklifts have reached a maintenance cycle of more than 1000 hours. Maintenance content: the maintenance of electric forklifts is much simpler than that of internal combustion forklifts. usually, only some joint movable parts such as mast bearings, steering axles and other parts are lubricated. at most, hydraulic oil, gear oil and hydraulic filters are replaced every 2000 or 3000 hours. other required materials are very limited. In addition to lubricating oil, internal combustion forklifts need to replace the engine oil and oil filter every 500 hours (usually about every 300 hours).

Replace hydraulic oil, engine oil, transmission oil and these oil filters within 1000 hours. Also replace the belt (engine timing belt, generator belt, etc.). If you still take a 3-ton forklift as an example, the maintenance cost of an internal combustion forklift is 3,000-4,000 yuan (material cost) based on 2000 hours of operation per year, while the maintenance cost of an electric forklift is only 1,000-1,500 yuan (material cost).

The time required for maintenance, because the maintenance interval of electric forklifts is much longer than that of internal combustion forklifts, and the time required for each maintenance is much less than that of internal combustion forklifts, this greatly saves the labor cost required for maintenance. In fact, what is more substantial is that the downtime of forklifts is greatly shortened, which is difficult to calculate the economic benefits brought about by the improved working efficiency of forklifts. The service life of the battery of the electric forklift is 1500 charge and discharge cycles, which translates into about 10000 hours of working hours of the forklift, which is also equivalent to the time of overhaul of the engine of an internal combustion forklift. At this time, the replacement cost of the battery of the electric forklift is relatively close to that of the engine overhaul, but the speed of replacing the battery is much faster than that of overhauling the engine (or replacing the engine), it also reflects the advantage of time efficiency.

At this point, we can see that although the cost of purchasing electric forklifts is 30% higher than that of internal combustion forklifts with the same load capacity, the total cost of using electric forklifts can be directly measured by data. In fact, the total cost of using electric forklifts is much lower than that of internal combustion forklifts. On the one hand, more and more forklifts are operated indoors, so the requirements for vehicle exhaust emissions are getting higher and higher. Europe and the United States and other places have been strictly regulated, indoor ban on the use of internal combustion forklift. Even though the domestic laws and regulations in our country have not yet begun to strictly restrict the use of internal combustion forklifts indoors, compared with internal combustion forklifts, the advantages of low noise and no exhaust emissions of electric vehicles have been recognized by many users.

In addition, there are some technical reasons for the selection of electric forklifts. The rapid development of electronic control technology makes the operation of electric forklift become more and more comfortable, the wider the scope of application, more and more solutions to logistics, such as electric pallet truck, electric stacker truck, forward forklift, three-way narrow channel forklift, etc., which cannot be done by internal combustion forklift, but electric forklift solves these problems, especially plays a very important role in the solution of storage logistics system.