Southwest Airlines Goes Electric

In 2015, Southwest Airlines® began powering 70 new electric baggage tractors with NexSys® TPPL Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) batteries at Chicago’s Midway International Airport. The carrier had just started using them in its baggage tractors station-wide, after a multi-city trial demonstrated that the TPPL batteries would eliminate the watering maintenance and acid spills associated with flooded lead acid batteries.