Within the North American market, Yale is among the biggest volume producers of zero emissions electric forklifts around. The business was amongst the first to adopt the energy efficiency of AC motor and control technology. Yale's continued pursuit of enhanced energy efficiency is further improved by competitive testing. All these testing results feature that the 5000 pound electric rider model manufactured by Yale offers the best energy efficiency, or energy utilized per load moved, of any lift truck within its class in North America.
Green Innovations
Yale was able to develop and introduce an innovative electronically controlled transmission that could greatly lessen the tire and brake wear for our ICE forklift customers. With regards to our electric lift trucks, the company has applied a system to recapture energy into the lift truck during the lowering of loads and during braking. This energy can then be used again. This specific process greatly lessens the unit's overall energy consumption.
Yale has used a lot of innovative engineering techniques to reduce non-productive energy use throughout the vehicle by means of hydraulic system efficiency, drive train efficiency and weight reduction. There are still patents pending on the drive train efficiency.
Green Initiatives
Yale has taken great strides to engineer their forklifts to be compatible with the newest in alternative power technologies over the years. Yale has applied LPG option, electric battery units, clean diesel fuels. This practice is being upheld most recently, with Yale being among the first to implement working fuel cells in actual applications.
Yale has supported numerous greener technologies through engineering collaboration. Additionally, we have initiated a new system of field validation testing, and analysis. Presently, we are investigating in more efficient battery technologies and chemistries, in order to reduce overall energy consumption, lessen toxic material content and increase productivity.
Yale has shown a great devotion to green initiatives that have been reinforced by the companies focus on developing new standards within the business.
One more main factor in Yale lift truck design is recyclability. Beginning at the design stage, Yale actively chooses materials for its lift trucks keeping the recyclability factor in mind. Re-using materials as much as possible and having broken down items to be able to be sent for recycling greatly decreases our footprint and keeps environmental sustainability at the forefront of our business.