Forklift battery and LP-gas shift planner
Run time per battery charge or LP cylinder, swaps per day and energy cost per truck for your operating hours.
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- Your own numbers, worked out as often as you like
- The full energy plan you can print or save to My work
- 3 cited sources, linked, with the checks to make
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- A plain-words read of your result (a fuller AI read with the Bifrost AI add-on)
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Example result · fictional numbers
What you get: energy plan
Worked out by this tool from its default inputs. Its role plan lets you run your own numbers, print the sheet and save it.
3 batteries per truck to cover 16.0 h a day; over a year electric saves $77,721.04 a year (energy plus battery wear)
- Battery energy (usable 80%)
- 36.0 kWh (28.8 kWh)
- Run time per charge
- 6.4 h
- Batteries per truck per day
- 3 (swap or opportunity-charge)
- Run time per 33.5 lb LP cylinder
- 5.6 h (3 cylinders per truck per day)
- Energy cost per day, fleet
- Electric $71 vs LP $430
Charging schedule per truck
- Run time per charge
- 6.4 h
- Discharges per day
- 2.50
- Battery tied up per discharge
- 22.4 h (run 6.4 h, charge 8.0 h, cool 8.0 h)
- Batteries needed per truck
- 3 (18 for the fleet)
- Grid energy per day, fleet
- 508 kWh at 85% charger efficiency
- Charging area
- Designated area with flushing, neutralizing, fire protection and ventilation
Also on the sheet
- Battery wear · 3 lines, starting with “Cycles per battery set a year”
- LP cylinder order sheet · 4 lines, starting with “Run time per cylinder”
- Yearly cost sheet, fleet · 4 lines, starting with “Electricity”
The plain-words read of this example
Each truck uses 2.50 battery charges a day. With 8.0 h charging and 8.0 h cool-down, it needs 3 batteries. At 1,500 rated cycles a battery lasts about 2.3 years, so wear adds $15,600.00 a year to $18,499.76 of electricity. LP would cost $111,820.80 a year, so electric saves $77,721.04 a year. Charging must happen in a designated area with spill and fire protection; check both prices against EIA data.
3 cited sources
- 29 CFR 1910.178, Powered industrial trucks (OSHA)
- Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.A: Average price of electricity to ultimate customers by end-use sector, by state (U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA))
- Weekly heating oil and propane prices: residential propane (U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA))
Plus 5 step-by-step checks, a print layout and a link that reopens it with your numbers.