Electrocar

An electric cart, also called electric carts or electric platform trucks, is a motor vehicle that is equipped with an electric motor and batteries and primarily serves the material transport on a flat load floor is located behind the driver. The electric carts used primarily in-house or other short-haul transport tasks. The driver sits as in cars or he stands on a pedestal, usually can ride a second person. Particularly formerly usual vehicles for stationary driving are controlled by two hand lever.

The vehicles allow only low speeds and is generally only used on flat roadways, so the wheels often wear solid rubber tires and are unsprung.

When engine was formerly a directly mechanically connected DC motor used today maintenance-free AC motors with frequency converters are used. The motor is also used as a brake. Ranges up to 70 km and payloads up to five tons are common. The most important suppliers in the Federal Republic Still, Mafi and people.

The vehicles are used for transportation purposes often where car traffic is forbidden, such as on some of the car-free North Sea islands, such as Wangerooge or Heligoland. They are they to train stations and airports in use, where they transport with the help of supporters luggage between task and unloading.