Gottwald cranes get onboard energy store

Gottwald has unveiled a new energy-saving hybrid drive, employing state-of-the-art diesel generators in connection with dynamic brake resistors and short-term energy storage to achieve fuel savings in the double-digit percentage range.

Technology already exists to recover energy from electric drive technology, but it that energy is not needed it is currently allow to dissipate.

To answer this, Gottwald has now developed a hybrid drive which includes short-term energy storage for the recovered energy which is then made available to the crane’s power system for the next work cycle.