Did there seem the car taking an elevator in Luzhou? Yesterday a piece of online news revealed that in Luzhou, a city situated in the southeast of Sichuan Province.there appeared the first car elevator. “It is quite advanced and convenient. Cars access to the underground parking lot by elevator and people, sitting in the car or truck, could enter or exit the parking lot vertically without stepping out of their cars”, said the post. Then is there really any such thing as the car elevator? The answer is yes. Its technical term should be the Mechanical Three-dimensional Garage; it is actually a kind of special elevator that is used to solve the problems of the cars' vertical transportation. Defined as ldquo;an elevator of which the car is suitable for carrying the small passenger vehicle rdquo;, it belongs to a sort of the cargo elevator supplier inside the items of the special equipment.
The development of the human beings is in an infinite process while that of the cities is in a limited space. In consequence, the three-dimensional development of the city buildings and traffic emerges correspondingly. To seek a solution to the problems concerning the three-dimensional stereoscopic traffic, the dream of the car elevator has come true. Its standard load is up to 3,000 kilograms or 5,000 kilograms and the speed is ranging from 0.25 meters per second to 0.5 meters per second. Compared with the traditional automobile ramp, as an important vehicle lift tool, not only can it save 80% of the construction area, but also cut down the vehicle turnover efficiency more than twice.
In addition, statistics indicate that, the total number of the vehicles in china had added up to 80 million by the end of 2010, of which 50 million were the passenger vehicles. And within the predictable future, the figure will grow at a rate of around 20%. The fact is that most of these cars are distributed in cities, which without doubt adds to the traffic congestion with the expansion and three-dimensional development of the cities. As a result, the car elevator emerges as the times require and gains a rapid development.
At present, the car elevator supplier explains that there are two kinds of car elevators widely used. One is the hydraulic car elevator which has earned itself a place in low-rise buildings through taking advantage of its safety, reliability and convenient room set. The other is the traction car elevator that developed from the traditional traction freight elevator. Owing to its mature technology and low cost, it now has occupied a certain market share. Comparatively speaking, it can satisfy the basic demand of the three-dimensional development of modern cities at the present stage. However, within the long run, It is the hydraulic cargo elevator whose layout is convenient, energy saving and environmental protection that is more likely to adapt to the development trend of the future car elevator.
Within the recent years, as the car or truck sales industry and its service industry develop rapidly, the car elevator has been wildly applied inside the parking lot, car-selling mall, supermarket, vehicle maintenance and repair shop, station, 4S store, shopping mall as well as the business club. There is no doubt that it is sure to have a broad prospect under the background of more and more large modern cities.