BYD Forklift Again Nominated For International Forklift Of The Year Award

Following its success in prevailing the International Forklift of the Year (IFOY) award in 2016, in the class for counter balanced forklifts up to 3.5 tonnes, BYD has as soon as once more been nominated for this year’s IFOY award, the IFOY business enterprise formally introduced in the past this week.

The BYD nominee in the Counter Balanced Truck class is the new ECB50, a 5 tonne pure electric powered forklift powered by means of the maintenance-free BYD Iron-Phosphate battery, in a position to work continuous at least 6 hours earlier than charging and succesful of being thoroughly recharged in below three hours.

With 50% greater working time than its direct Lithium strength competitors, it is capable to efficiently exchange gas, diesel or lead-acid machines for indoors and outside use, strongly contributing to CO2 discount in out of doors use.

It is supposed to be used indoors however most importantly exterior in the development materials, beverage, manufacturing and refuse processing industries, amongst others.
Only one different truck has been nominated in this category.

From February on, the nominees in all classes will be examined all through the global IFOY Test Days in Hanover, Germany by using an global jury. The winners will be introduced at the CeMAT change truthful in April additionally in Hanover.

Javier Contijoch, Director of Industrial Vehicles at BYD Europe, said: “We are honoured to be shortlisted once more for the 2d time for the IFOY award. Our demonstrated science has been identified by using many choice makers already and has proven that it affords organizations a substantial gain in decreasing running prices up to 40% thanks to BYD’s battery administration and TCO reduction. This nomination motivates us in persevering with to improve efficient, environment-friendly standards for fabric handling, passenger transport and electricity storage.”