Canadian company orders chargers

AccelRate Power Systems has received an initial stocking order from Carney Battery Handling for its novel Smart Chargers.

AccelRate Power Systems has received an initial stocking order from Carney Battery Handling for its novel Smart Chargers.

Toronto-based Carney, the undisputed battery handling market leader in Canada, has placed its initial order for the full range of AccelRate SC battery chargers, which can fully recharge any 24, 36 or 48V forklift, walkies or aerial lift batteries in two hours, with no negative impact to battery lifetime.

"Using AccelRate's unique, high-speed Smart Chargers, a typical Canadian 30-unit forklift operation could save up to one million dollars annually", said Pierre Gadbois, Vice President - Motive Power of AccelRate Power Systems.

"Carney Battery Handling has recognised the many advantages of AccelRate Smart Chargers, including the elimination of expensive battery charging rooms by some operations".

"As a leading supplier of products for the battery handling industry, it is our responsibility to provide our customers with the most advanced technology available", said Wayne Carney, President of Carney Battery Handling .

"In some operations, AccelRate Smart Chargers can reduce the number of batteries and chargers required, and at the same time eliminate the space and equipment costs of a battery handling room".

"We are pleased to provide our customers with this unique alternative".

All AccelRate motive power battery chargers incorporate advanced high frequency IGBT technology to provide outstanding energy efficiency.

The use of advanced IGBT technology will result in significant energy cost reductions for material handling equipment users.

AccelRate's SC series of chargers will fully recharge a battery five times faster than conventional chargers, without requiring any modifications to the battery.

Due to its compact size and light weight, the AccelRate SC will do the work of several regular chargers in a fraction of the total space.

The Smart Chargers can be mounted anywhere around an industrial plant for easy access whenever a full charge or a top-up is needed.

In May 2005, AccelRate announced the signing of Carney as the initial distributor for AccelRate's patented battery chargers to the Canadian materials handling industry's after-market.

Industrial equipment using AccelRate SC chargers include forklift trucks, personnel carriers, aerial trucks and other material handling equipment.

This followed the signing of a licence agreement with Hawker Powersource as the manufacturer of AccelRate battery chargers for motive applications.

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