Manitou Group has partnered with Bouygues Building Matériel to function its first retrofit telehandler.
Due to this partnership, an preliminary trial is underway on Europe’s largest hospital building website in Nantes, with the energetic participation of Equans France, one other subsidiary of the Bouygues group.
This marks the primary time one of these combustion-engine tools, transformed to electrical energy, is being utilized in a real-world building website state of affairs.
Initiated in early 2023, the partnership between Manitou Group and Kiloutou is coming into its second section with a testing interval on the development website of the brand new hospital of the Nantes College Hospital (CHU).
This section will proceed till early Might, adopted by 4 extra months of testing at two different websites to evaluate numerous use instances. This significant stage will enable the entities to collect useful suggestions from operators to guage the efficiency of the electrification package. The factors being analysed embody security, battery life, ergonomics and charging instances.
“This testing section, centered on consumer wants and expectations, is essential to validate this electrification package. Preliminary suggestions from the development website may be very encouraging, with efficiency largely akin to a combustion engine, mixed with a major discount in noise and 0 carbon emissions. We nonetheless have just a few months of testing to solidify our confidence, however the undertaking is really promising! We share the identical conviction with the Kiloutou Group, and we confidently envision the potential of retrofitting, in step with our dedication to creating the round economic system a cornerstone of our CSR technique,” says Michel Denis, president & CEO of Manitou Group.
The preliminary outcomes from the exams performed on the Nantes College Hospital Centre building website are very constructive. Used every day by Equans France groups, the retrofit telehandler ensures the unloading of deliveries and the availability of supplies on website.
Due to its 100% electrical motorization, it avoids the necessity for diesel refuelling, thus limiting truck actions, simplifying website entry logistics, and considerably lowering air pollution dangers.
Suggestions gathered from operators expresses satisfaction with the charging technique, driving consolation, ample battery life for one of these utility, and efficiency much like the combustion engine model.
For instance, the tools can function for greater than three hours with out interruption. Charging time can also be restricted, with 25% of the battery recharged in only one hour (22kVA).
Retrofitting represents a sustainable and round transition answer, reaching a mean discount of 40% in greenhouse fuel emissions in comparison with the manufacturing and use of combustion engine tools, and a 25% discount within the whole environmental rating.
“For a number of years, the Kiloutou Group has been dedicated to contributing to the acceleration of the environmental transition. This retrofitting undertaking,performed with our associate Manitou Group, absolutely aligns with our roadmap to scale back our CO2 emissions, significantly oblique emissions, by roughly 25% by 2030. The complete-scale take a look at on the Nantes College Hospital Centre website will assist advance the undertaking, with a view to probably contemplating a wider-scale deployment, if the take a look at outcomes proceed to show conclusive,” says Olivier Colleau, president of the Kiloutou Group.
