TransPower Flexes Its All-Battery Muscles
From Fleets & Fuels website, March 27, 2015.
Says Hard Data Backs Its Claims of Full Heavy Tractor Capability As Company Awarded Funding for Demonstrations and Expansion
San Diego-based Transportation Power, Inc. is throwing down the gauntlet on heavy duty all-electric terminal tractors, claiming it’s got more data than anyone on range and heavy-load capabilities.
“We believe our battery-electric vehicles are the only proven, fully operational zero emission trucks in the world capable of hauling loads up to the Class 8 truck limit of 80,000 pounds,” TransPower president and CEO Mike Simon said in a release.
TransPower conducted a demonstration of four fully functional battery-electric Class 8 trucks this week, “just hours,” the company says, after the California Energy Commission announced its award of nearly $9 million to TransPower for new electric truck and tractor demonstration projects.
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