Summary

A reach stacker looks like exactly the sort of machine batteries should struggle with. Large models can weigh more than 70 tonnes before picking anything up, then lift loaded shipping containers weighing another 40 tonnes or more several rows deep and several containers high. They work in busy freight terminals where equipment availability matters and where nobody wants an environmental experiment interfering with container movements. Yet the market is developing in the opposite direction from that intuition.

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