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June 2013

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Smartphone, iPhone, Tablet-enabled app helps users analyze fuel savings
TMHU has launched its Toyota Forklift Fuel Efficiency Calculator application (app) to help users estimate fuel efficiency savings and performance for their forklift fleet.
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TMHU has launched its Toyota Forklift Fuel Efficiency Calculator application (app) to help users estimate fuel efficiency savings and performance for their forklift fleet.

Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., Inc. (TMHU) has launched its Toyota Forklift Fuel Efficiency Calculator application (app) to help users estimate fuel efficiency savings and performance for their forklift fleet. The interactive Forklift Fuel Efficiency Calculator is available on iPhones, smartphones, iPads and Android tablets.

“Mobile phones and tablets are an extension of the workplace. This app makes perfect sense to provide businesses instant access to their potential forklift fleet fuel savings, productivity and efficiency gains,” said Melinda Beckett-Maines, national marketing manager for TMHU. “In addition, Toyota’s new ‘mobile-friendly’ website simplifies content and navigation for customers to view information on our products and services from their mobile device.”

The free downloadable app provides users with the ability to enter their detailed material handling specifications. The calculator measures a number of user-specific variables including fuel efficiency, run times per cycle and speed advantage per cycle.

The app then breaks out the detailed fuel efficiency user specs into the following data options:

  • Fuel gallons per hour per unit
    Fuel costs per hour, day, week and year per unit
    Fuel efficiency improvement
    Fuel cost savings per unit per year
    Fleet fuel cost savings per year
    Run Time Improvement Per LPG Tank
  • Run time per tank
    Run time per tank improvement (minutes)
    Run time per tank improvement 
  • Speed Advantage Per Cycle
  • Average Time Per Cycle
    Performance advantage – each cycle
    Average Cycles per work day (cycles)
    Performance advantage (additional cycles per day)
    Performance advantage per work day

 
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