Recently, the winners of the 2021 China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award were officially announced. The project “The Research and Application of Key Technologies of XC Series New Energy Forklifts Based on Hybrid Platform Architecture” declared by Hangcha Group Co., Ltd. won the second prize.

The China Machinery Industry Science and Technology Award is a comprehensive science and technology award established by the China Machinery Industry Federation and the China Mechanical Engineering Society, approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology for the national machinery industry. It is also the main channel for the machinery industry to apply for the National Science and Technology Progress Award. The review team of this award is composed of experts from machinery industry associations, professional colleges and universities, research institutes, and industry-leading enterprises. This award is also the recognition and praise of Hangcha Group for its innovative strength in the new energy field.

“The Research and Application of Key Technologies of XC Series New Energy Forklifts Based on Hybrid Platform Architecture” is collaborative research on key technologies of new energy forklifts by Hangcha Group, Zhengzhou Jiachen, Hangzhou Pengcheng, and CATL. It has achieved major breakthroughs in key technologies such as special architecture platforms for lithium battery forklift, lithium batteries for industrial vehicles, environmental adaptability, intelligent vehicle management system, etc. The overall technology is at the international leading level of similar products appraised by experts. With excellent performance and as star products of Hangcha, the XC series forklifts have quickly occupied the market share of high-end lithium battery industrial vehicles at home and abroad. The products are widely used in automobiles, petrochemicals, railways, aviation, logistics, food, smelting, photovoltaics, etc. and favored by domestic and foreign markets, and achieved impressive sales performance in overseas markets such as Europe and North America.

XC Series Forklift Truck with Lithium-iron-phosphate

In the context of the national policy of “carbon peak and carbon neutrality”, “carbon emission reduction” in the industrial vehicle industry must be conducted. Hangcha Group will focus on the company’s new energy strategy, take “aim at the benchmarking enterprises and surpass competing products” as the goal of product development, and put the slogan “make the world's best forklift” into practice. On the basis of new energy products such as XC series reach truck with lithium-iron-phosphate, XH series electric forklift truck with high voltage lithium-ion batteries, hydrogen fuel cell forklifts, Hangcha Group will continue to strengthen the research and development, and the promotion and application of new energy industrial vehicles, so as to help reduce carbon emissions, to drive the product strategic transformation and upgrading and high-quality development of the company, to help achieve “carbon neutrality” as soon as possible, and to shoulder the responsibility as a leading enterprise and to lead the development of the industry.