{"id":577840,"date":"2010-05-25T06:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T10:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2441"},"modified":"2010-05-25T06:20:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T10:20:33","slug":"wegmans-uses-green-fuel-cell-powered-pallet-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577840","title":{"rendered":"Wegman&#8217;s Uses Green Fuel Cell Powered Pallet Trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"2\" height=\"92\" border=\"2\" align=\"left\" width=\"134\" vspace=\"2\" title=\"fuel cell powered forklift\" alt=\"fuel cell powered forklift\" src=\"http:\/\/www.airproducts.com\/NR\/rdonlyres\/D8B2C778-B692-41E1-93EC-761E5A61145C\/0\/Wegmans_forklift_26Apr2010_t.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; Wegmans, a supermarket chain &#8230; launched a fleet  of 50 hydrogen fuel cell-powered pallet trucks using Air Products&rsquo;  (NYSE: APD) &#8230; technology at its  Pottsville, Pa. warehouse &#8230; the  first commercial site in Pennsylvania &#8230; using hydrogen-powered material handling equipment.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; environmental benefits &#8230; Because hydrogen is the fuel  source, heat and water are the only byproducts.&nbsp; &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230;systems can be quickly refueled in less than five minutes, &#8230; Wegmans hopes to convert  its entire lift truck fleet at the Pottsville facility to hydrogen fuel  cells over the next few years. &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; fuel cell-powered  equipment provides consistent power strength during use and does not  experience decreased performance or wear down as traditional lead-acid  battery units do &#8230; fuel cell forklifts are not adversely  impacted by temperature or by operating in coolers and freezers, &#8230;  fuel cell equipment is more environmentally friendly because it does  not involve lead-acid battery storage and disposal issues.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:&nbsp;<\/strong> Air Products and Chemicals&nbsp; <a title=\"Air Products and Chemicals\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.airproducts.com\/PressRoom\/CompanyNews\/Archived\/2010\/26Apr2010.htm\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot; &#8230; Wegmans, a supermarket chain &#8230; launched a fleet of 50 hydrogen fuel cell-powered pallet trucks using Air Products&rsquo; (NYSE: APD) &#8230; technology at its Pottsville, Pa. warehouse &#8230; the first commercial site in Pennsylvania &#8230; using hydrogen-powered material handling equipment.&quot; &quot; &#8230; environmental benefits &#8230; Because hydrogen is the fuel source, heat and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}