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Managing a warehouse in South Africa has become a complex and increasingly expensive challenge. With additional challenges presented by disruptive power outages finding innovative solutions to ensure your warehouse’s productivity and profitability keep increasing has become a warehouse manager’s primary goal.
In navigating the South African warehouse industry energy efficiency and alternative energy sources have become a top priority to create an efficient operating environment. At Toyota Material Handling, we have invested in creating energy-efficient forklift batteries to keep your 3-wheel electric forklifts or 4-wheel electric forklift running even amid load-shedding.
As sustainable Electric forklifts become the norm in South African warehouses lithium ion forklift batteries are quickly replacing Lead Acid batteries to provide safer, effective industrial battery solutions for your warehouse applications.
It is an unsurprising progression as Lithium ion Batteries provide far more productivity benefits such as:
Toyota’s Lithium ion Battery can go from 0% – 50% in just over 30 minutes and gain a full charge in under 2 hours. And as they don’t require cool-down period forklift drivers are able to take advantage of the opportunity charging benefits to charge the forklift battery during breaks or just before load-shedding without compromising the battery life. A charge can last up to 8 hours allowing you to work well beyond any level of load-shedding.
Toyota Lithium ion forklift batteries have triple the lifespan of Lead acid batteries. The useful life of our Lithium ion batteries is equivalent to that of our forklifts allowing you to save on investing in multiple sets of batteries to maintain your forklifts.
The use of lithium salt as an electrolyte, alongside the highest energy-dense chemistries currently on the market allows the battery to store more energy in a smaller space. Toyota Lithium-ion batteries can therefore withstand more load cycles, with less energy lost during charging cycles and the constant maximum power provision, and their electronic controllers ensure reliability and safety.
Lithium ion batteries generate less heat and improve stable voltage delivery at any charge level. The cylindrical cells are designed not to touch one another ensuring a safety hazard in one cell does not directly impact neighbouring cells. The cylindrical shape also protects the cells from damage by making them harder to penetrate and making them generally more difficult to damage. This combined with other ergonomic designs, and easy-to-use chargers make them easy and safe to use.
A battery system is made up of several modules (several cells assembled together) connected in series. Each module is equipped with a safety system and the complete battery system has a superior BMS which controls the total battery activity, whether charge or outlet. This system enables you to monitor battery usage ensuring you’re aware of how your battery is doing at any time allowing you to optimise your energy usage.
Toyota’s smart chargers are equipped with DPL which controls energy input, so the lowest battery levels get the most power. This includes enabling you to reduce your power peaks thereby being more energy- and cost-efficient.
As there is no cool-down period for the Lithium-ion Batteries there is no need for a designated charging room allowing your charging station to be located anywhere within your warehouse. This in turn allows you to free up floor space which can be used to optimise flows and maximise operational efficiency.
