Underpowered electric trucks spin wheels at L.A. port: Balqon won contract in no-bid process.
Los Angeles Business Journal › June 06, 2011
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Underpowered electric trucks spin wheels at L.A. port: Balqon won contract in no-bid process.
In a two-month span in 2009, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke at the grand opening of Balqon Corp.'s headquarters, bragged about it on TV to CNN's Anderson Cooper and chose it for the site of his State of the City speech.
The reason for emphasizing the Harbor City plant operated by Balqon, an electric truck maker, was obvious. The Port of Los Angeles had plucked the company from obscurity, given it money to develop a prototype and ordered millions of dollars worth of its zero-emission trucks for use at the port. In return, the company agreed to move from Aliso Viejo and hire local workers. Here, as the ma...See the full content of this document
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