HCC Hanseatic Cruise Centers (HanseCC) that operates the two cruise terminals in Hamburg in Germany has introduced five Still hybrid forklift trucks.
“The Still RX 70 Hybrid is the first serially produced hybrid lift truck to use the transmission of electric power, generated when the vehicle brakes, to recover energy,” HCC said in a statement.
This energy is stored in double layer capacitors, known as ultracaps, before subsequently being made available to the forklift truck again. Industries in which frequent braking and acceleration takes place are thus ideal fields of application for the RX 70 Hybrid – which is, for example, the case when loading and unloading cruise liners on harbour docks, some of which are cramped, HCC said.
