American Battery Solutions has announced a $132-million contract to provide terminal tractor manufacturer TICO with its Proliance Intelligent Battery Series 700-volt lithium-ion batteries to power TICO’s in-house fleet of Pro-Spotter Electric terminal trucks.

TICO, which manufactures the Pro-Spotter Electric terminal trucks, also uses some 2,000 of them in its port equipment rental pools.

The use of ABS’s high-voltage, off-the-shelf Proliant battery packs will give TICO’s vehicles a scalable range of onboard energy levels, including 104, 208 and 312 kWh options.

“By integrating the ABS Proliance T700-100 battery packs with multiple energy capacity solutions, TICO can offer flexibility and reliability to meet a range of operational needs,“ said Subhash Dhar, CEO of ABS.

Terminal trucks, which are also referred to as terminal tractors, as well as by several more colorful names, including yard trucks, yard dogs, yard mules and, in the United Kingdom, terminal lorries, are semi-tractor vehicles designed to move semi-trailers within a warehouse facility, cargo yard or intermodal facility.

TICO, which stands for Terminal Investment Corporation, commenced operations in 1946, first starting in bus transportation and terminal businesses in the 1950s and 1960s to port-related labor transportation in the 1960s and 1970s, at which point the current model of port equipment rental pools and trailer truck manufacturing took hold.

Source: American Battery Solutions