How long does an electric forklift last?

Many enterprises will consider the service life of forklifts when buying forklifts. After all, the price of forklift equipment is expensive. Then the question comes: how many hours is the service life of forklifts? Does the country have the fixed number of years that sets to be scrapped compultarily?

Many people say that the service life of forklift is 10 years, and some people say that according to the national regulations on motor vehicles, it is 15 years. In fact, the above two statements have some basis, but strictly speaking, these two answers are not accurate enough, let the following HITOP to explain this problem.


Forklifts belong to special equipment vehicles used in the site, and there are no relevant regulations on mandatory scrapping of forklifts by the state.

However, it does not mean that forklifts can be used unlimited. According to the standards currently implemented by the Quality supervision Bureau, forklifts belonging to the first stage of the national emission standards are not registered and inspected annually. That is to say, forklifts produced before July 1, 2004 are required to be scrapped by the state. According to this calculation, the service life of the forklift is about 15 years.

If we start from forklift manufacturing, forklift manufacturers are generally designed and produced according to the service life of 20,000 hours when producing forklifts. If the forklift is used according to 8 hours/day, 22 working days/month, 20,000 hours can be used for about 9 and a half years, less than half a year than the 10 years we said. Therefore, if your factory uses the forklift for a longer time every day and for more working days every month, the service life of the forklift will be shorter. Of course, this is under normal maintenance. If the maintenance is not good, the service life will be shorter.

Of course, in the actual use, if the forklift truck to the end of the use, the failure rate and shutdown rate will be very high, the value of maintenance decline, I believe that we will not repair, this is economically driven, to achieve the purpose of scrappage.

To sum up: because of the use condition, maintenance quality, the difference between the use of time, this calculation of the service life of forklift is not scientific, we can according to 20,000 hours or 9 years of service life as a reference.