Materials Handling Market

Features & Benefits

Fuel cell power solutions for materials handling applications offer key features and benefits over traditional electric power.

Battery Changes Eliminated
Fuel cell power units eliminate the need for batteries and their associated care (changing, charging and maintaining). Additionally, fuel cells run longer than batteries and continue to run evenly, as long as they have fuel.

Consistent Power
Fuel cell power solutions maintain constant full power output, ensuring lift trucks operate at full speed and power at all times, increasing productivity while decreasing engine fatigue. In comparison, lift trucks powered by lead-acid batteries lose approximately 14% of their productivity due to “battery droop”. This means the battery delivers declining voltage to the lift truck over a shift, resulting in sluggish operation, higher wear and tear on the truck’s electric motor and a more physically demanding job for lift truck operators.

Fast Fuelling
Fuel cell solutions allow lift truck operators to fuel their trucks in one to three minutes and return to the warehouse floor quicker than with batteries.

More Productive Warehouse Floor Space
Fuel cell solutions eliminate the need for onsite battery storage, freeing up valuable real estate for more profitable warehousing and commercial opportunities.

Zero Emissions
Fuel cell power units are clean and efficient, producing zero emission, while eliminating the need to handle, store and dispose of lead and acid.