Well The new truck that will change the global counter balance forklift market will be out in the fourth Quarter this year.


As for you saying that automation will not catch on, It will be the likes of Amazon that drives this and Amazon will make it work.


As for your prediction about Diesel, Diesel will be gone before 10 years the cost and complexity of tier V will go along way to the end of Diesel. The main reason will be companies are not only looking at their own carbon footprint but also the carbon foot print of their supply chain. So companies wanting to stay in business will change to meet their customer requirements. Cites and Governments are making Clean air areas, in the UK London is doing this is the transport industry and will soon be looking at all other industries so this change will be forced on to people it will be change or face high cost of running old Diesel equipment. One way could be having a carbon Tax on Diesel that would make it uncompetitive to run diesel trucks.

At least you were correct on Hyster the fuel cell wont catch on and hyster will have to right off hundreds of Millions of Dollars on this