Having read a report on CO2 Emissions for cars that they have to be under 95Kg of CO2 per Kilometre or the car manufacture would face a 95 euro fine per gram of CO2 over that would translate to just under 1.5 Billion Euros for VW , it make me wonder what would happen if the same was added to forklifts and Reach Stackers

An average Reach Stacker would produce around 52Kg of CO2 per Hour and an average 8 ton forklift would produce around 28Kg of CO2 Now if this was lowered to say 35Kg of CO2 Per hour for a reach stacker and say 19Kg of CO2 per hour for a 8 ton forklift how would the OEM'S per form.


Would this see the increase of the development of all electric forklifts or 100% zero emission forklifts and Container handling equipment.

Most of the top OEM'S now have electric forklift up to 8 ton and Doosan will soon have an electric truck in this range.

Knowing that tier VI is causing problems for diesel forklift OEM'S and will slow the market down over the next couple of years would this cause even more problems