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Batteries can double as the counter weight so you don’t need steel plates.
Batteries are great for forklifts too, for exactly this reason.
For the same lifting capacity, a battery forklift is roughly half a metre shorter than a comparable LPG/Propane or Petrol/Diesel model, which really helps with the turning radius.
Also there's the whole "frequently driven indoors" aspect for forklifts.
TIL that makes sense