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Balqon’s Electric Truck: 90-Mile Range, Fully Loaded

Very significant statement for the debate about whether Lead based batteries will be able retain a sizeable market in the new Li-ion battery world, "To deliver the higher speeds and ranges that it requires, Balqon decided to switch from its previous lead-acid batteries to lithium-ion batteries, Samra said.".

Balqon’s Electric Truck: 90-Mile Range, Fully Loaded

It’s great that there are applications like this where the economic and environmental advantages of electric trucks are great enough to overcome the current very high price of Li-ion batteries. When the price of Li-ion batteries drop to about 25% of what they are today (my guess is about 10 years) imagine the new applications. And, using all-electric trucks for dockside will be standard practice.