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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 mayor pointed out during his State of the City speech, was proof that his administration was doing something to create jobs of the future.

“I believe L.A.’s economic future starts right here, in places like Balqon, where the next generation of electric trucks are being designed, tested and manufactured,” he said, standing inside the plant.

Two years later, the Balqon trucks ar