In 2016, American faced chronic battery failures in its bag tractors at DFW. They were facing multiple factors including the Dallas heat, increased duty cycle, difficulty in keeping up with watering maintenance, and challenges with getting the ramp to plug in to the chargers. Station Manager Antonello Davi states, “The ramp became addicted to the fast chargers. They would let the batteries die because they knew they could get a quick bump in power to go another 15 minutes. The batteries would never get fully charged.”

The lead-acid batteries were failing in as little as two to three years. Needing a more robust battery solution, American tested a technology that had proven successful in other American applications as well as other carriers – thin plate pure lead (TPPL) NexSys PURE batteries from EnerSys…