Yale is a top manufacturer of zero emissions electric forklifts within the North American Market. The company was among the first to start utilizing other control technology and the energy efficient AC motor. Yale's continued pursuit of improved energy efficiency is further enhanced by competitive testing. All these testing results feature that Yale's 5000 pound electric rider unit provides the best energy efficiency, or energy utilized per load transported, of any kind of lift truck within its category in North America.
Green Innovations
Yale developed and introduced a ground-breaking electronically controlled transmission. This machinery greatly reduces tire and brake wear for our ICE lift truck customers. With regards to our electric forklifts, the company has applied a system to recapture energy into the lift truck during the lowering of loads and during braking. This energy could then be reused. This specific process really lessens the models overall energy consumption.
Yale has used lots of inventive engineering methods to decrease non-productive energy use throughout the vehicle by means of drive train efficiency, hydraulic system efficiency and weight reduction. There are still pending patents on the drive train efficiency.
Green Initiatives
Over the last few decades, Yale has gone the extra mile in engineering their forklifts to be compatible with all the newest in alternative power technologies. Yale has implemented electric battery units and clean diesel fuels and LPG option. This practice is being upheld most recently, with the company being amongst the first to implement working fuel cells in actual applications.
Through engineering collaboration, Yale has supported the adoption of numerous greener technologies. Moreover, we have initiated a new system of field validation testing, and analysis. Presently, we are investigating in more effective battery chemistries and technologies, to be able to reduce toxic material content, increase productivity and decrease overall energy use.
Yale is strongly committed to these green initiatives and they are reinforced by the company's participation in developing and setting new industry standards to implement these greener technologies in a safe and reliable way.
One more main consideration in Yale lift truck design is recyclability. Beginning at the design stage, the business actively selects materials for its lift trucks keeping the recyclability factor in mind. Having broken down things to be able to be sent for recycling and re-using materials as much as possible keeps environmental sustainability at the forefront of our business and really decreases our footprint.