{"id":5694,"date":"2013-12-26T18:52:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/?p=5694"},"modified":"2013-12-26T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:52:49","slug":"convert-electric-program-aimed-switching-forklifts-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/forklifts\/convert-electric-program-aimed-switching-forklifts-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Convert to Electric&#8221; Program Aimed at Switching Forklifts to Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago-area battery manufacturer has launched a program aimed at convincing forklift fleet owners to convert all of their vehicles to electrical power. EnerSys &#8211;which is based in Romeoville, Illinois, just southwest of Chicago &#8212; said it will launch the first phase of its new <a href=\"https:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/PR-CO-20131211-906206.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Convert to Electric&#8221;<\/a> program starting in the Chicago area then will expand it nationally . The objective of the program is to educate companies and help show them how they can save up to $6,300 annually for every forklift they own by switching to battery power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago-area battery manufacturer has launched a program aimed at convincing forklift fleet owners to convert all of their vehicles to electrical power. EnerSys &#8211;which is based in Romeoville, Illinois, just southwest of Chicago &#8212; said it will launch the first phase of its new &#8220;Convert to Electric&#8221; program starting in the Chicago area then &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;Convert to Electric&#8221; Program Aimed at Switching Forklifts to Batteries\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/forklifts\/convert-electric-program-aimed-switching-forklifts-batteries\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8220;Convert to Electric&#8221; Program Aimed at Switching Forklifts to Batteries\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,293],"tags":[6,1078,1079],"class_list":["post-5694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forklifts","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-forklift","tag-forklifts","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}