CleanTechnicaMichael Barnard
Reach Stackers Look Like A Hydrogen Use Case. Ports Are Buying Batteries.
A reach stacker looks like exactly the sort of machine batteries should struggle with. Large models can weigh more than 70 tonnes before picking anything up, then lift loaded shipping containers weighing another 40 tonnes or more several rows deep and several containers high.
Yet the market is developing in the opposite direction from that intuition. My assembled estimate puts the global battery-electric reach-stacker fleet at roughly 1,500 machines, perhaps 15% to 16% of a worldwide fleet around 9,300, while electric machines may already represent close to one-fifth of current production.
I started digging into the numbers becauseTilbury’s new hydrogen reach-stacker trial made me wonder how the two technologies were actually deploying. The answer says a lot about the difference between a machine looking difficult to electrify and its actual energy requirements.
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