The ongoing question if Crown will ever introduce a IC lift truck has been answered? I seen three unusual IC lift at a facility today. My first glance at a IC lift that had alot of Crowns modern day FC electric counterbalance look. It was a prototype called the RTS-50. The thing just looked like a CROWN no doubt. It had a John Deere power plant. Very deisel looking the valve cover was almost a foot wide. The engine was running on propane, but even sounds like a deisel. The truck looked very basic somewhat like a KOMATSU (nothing to fancy very common place machine) Some say Crown has been working on this for years. Looks like it is almost hear. Word is the lift is being built in there Indiana facility with production to start very soon. Is it to late for Crown IC indeavor? As I drove away from this facility this question kept coming to mind, because of the company just down the street. Plug Power motive power division. The hydrogen fuel cell people. I was a very short distance (15 miles) from Crowns New Bremen, Ohio headquarters. Plug power has two marketing people from Crown. Times might be tough, but Crown Lift Trucks has got more going on than you can imagine. Good Luck to all.
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timj - i can't say for sure what engine it will be but it was indicated in the first post that the engine will be from John Deere
if that is the case what engine will they use? Nissan like everyone else.
liftpopguy is right on the money. Crown will introduce and manufacture there own ICE engine design & the units are scheduled to be built in Indiana. I personally know the marketing guy at Crown that is in charge of the program.
Rigt now Crown is buying trucks thru Komatsu (the Tusk brand) & Doosan.
I have to tell you I have some contacts within Crown organization. They will built and market an IC truck very soon. This will be soley CROWN.
I had some info that Komatsu is building the IC units for Crown, just to give the US Crown dealers an option on IC trucks.
Crown would never build thier own units not worth it to them
The lift truck I seen has nothing in common with Doosan. It has Crown writen all over it. Just wait and see. They are a very agressive company, and will be a number one sales contender.
Crown has had an IC truck for some time now, just not in the US. However, I doubt if Crown will build their own truck. Crown builds a great electric truck and I doubt very much if they will divide their attention between building an IC and an electric. I would not be surprised to see a Crown IC truck built by Doosan (the company currently building their Asian truck) arrive in the US sometime next year. That would give Crown added value for their national accounts and they could push their dealers who have a dual dealerships for IC trucks to drop their second line and concentrate solely on the Crown product.
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