“The spotlights are on us,” he said. “A lot of fleets didn’t know Lion existed and now they know and understand we’ve been here for a lot of years.”
The news of these partnerships has already led to dozens of new inquiries from leading Canadian and American companies. It’s a change of pace from Lion’s more modest origins. “We looked at compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, propane and electric … and at the end of 2010 we said the future of Lion is electric because the future of society is electric,” he said.ran on a combination of LG Chem Ltd.’s lithium-ion batteries and a TM4 SUMO MD motor, which allowed it to travel up to 250 kilometres before requiring a charge.More recently, the company has transitioned to using BMW batteries for their buses.
The latter seems like an obvious question in North America — it’s the left side. But it wasn’t so obvious for Lion’s engineers, since they were tinkering with the idea of placing it squarely in the middle of the cabin. The trucks could then be sold overseas in countries where the driver sits on the right side of the cabin without modification.Article content continued
The introduction of trucks has allowed Bedard to diversify his client base. A focus on school buses meant that the company’s orders were mostly coming from school boards. The trucks brought both private and massive publicly-traded companies to the table. Ultimately, both companies failed. Batteries were just too expensive then, Ramsey said, and didn’t offer vehicles the necessary range. The collapse of fuel prices soon after was the final dagger, he said. But in 2020, the space has changed and it comes down to the economics of the batteries.
Lion is looking to aggressively expand and open a factory in the U.S. with a capacity of 20,000 units, good for a 700 per cent uptick in production. Bedard wants it fully operational in two years.Article content continued
Glad that a Canadian Co in doing well but electric trucks most likely will flop. They will never be as efficient as IC trucks , it's just against physics and energy laws. Without govmn support or PR stunt for Amazon and such, is not a sell
Links to Trudeau? Butts? Other senior Lubersls? cdnpoli
the few dozen people who give 2 sh1t$ about electric cars may find this interesting