@yidneck
The North American market US, Canada and Mexico reduced the number of diesel powered lift in the US back in the 80s mainly in trucks in the 4000 lb to 8000 lb. lift capacity due to NOX poisoning. Forks lift working in over the road freight hauling business, companies like Roadway and such also dock side operations (stevedoring) - in ships hold & temporary warehousing. Large capacity units are primarily diesel especially 15,000 lb. & above lift capacity.
The 10% reduction the EX man is talking about is primarily in the European market where diesel is was common place but slowly change to LPG fuel. The US alone is the largest lift truck market in this world by Industrial Truck Association statistics and by JIVA (Japanese ITA) and the European equivalent of the ITA, Canada is about 20% more or less the size of the US. Mexico is much less than Canada (both members report data to the ITA). Mexico uses almost zero diesel power lift due to the poor quality - only in large capacity units. Recalling selling several (like 10 or 12) Mitsubishi brand large capacity forklifts to the Port of Vera Cruz in the early 90s, before the joint venture with Cat. I was the sales liaison manager for Mitsubishi at that time and knew the UDIMAC dealers very well from my previous life with Allis-Chalmers. We introduced about 2600 Mitsubishi brand forklifts into Mexico from a base of zero in 5 years. Only the units that went to Vera Cruz were diesel powered.