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Los Angeles Port Awards Contract for Yard Tractor Retrofit

Balqon Corp. said it received a $630,000 contract from the Port of Los Angeles to retrofit six electric powered yard tractors, converting battery packs from lead acid batteries to higher energy density lithium batteries to increase the daily range of…

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the vehicles. For the past eight months, Balqon and POLA have been jointly testing two yard tractors fitted with Balqon’s next generation lithium battery system at a local intermodal facility, it said.