Lion Electric Co. introduces 26-foot all-electric midi/minibus
The company spent the last eight years designing and developing all-electric vehicles and the last three years commercializing an all-electric Type C school bus.
The low-floor vehicle is built to meet paratransit/transit/urban requirements and will be able to travel 150 miles on a single charge.
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The low-floor vehicle is built to meet paratransit/transit/urban requirements and will be able to travel 150 miles on a single charge.
Lion
The Lion Electric Co. (Lion), a company that manufactures zero-emission vehicles, revealed its brand new revolutionary all-electric 26-foot midi/minibus — the eLionM. The low-floor vehicle is built to meet paratransit/transit/urban requirements and will be able to travel 150 miles on a single charge.
“The launch of this new vehicle represents a major achievement for Lion, our society, and our environment,” said Marc Bedard, founder and CEO at Lion. “The eLionM will serve so many purposes that we already nicknamed it our ‘Swiss Army Knife.’ This 160 kWh vehicle is one of a kind and is not a retrofit; it’s a custom-built, zero-emission, and energy-efficient solution specifically built with transportation operators and agencies in mind.”
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Peter Rego, Lion’s CCO for the U.S., also stated that “we already started taking pre-orders and are excited to continue to demonstrate our commitment to cleaner air, a healthy population, and a greener planet with this new vehicle. We just completed the biggest deployment of all-electric school buses in the U.S. and it’s clearly just the beginning.”
Lion is also the only integrated OEM that makes its own chassis, battery packs, and body in this category. This allows them to use the best components, technologies (i.e., battery swap and different charging options) and control the overall cost of their products; making it possible to offer the best vehicles at the best price.
Lion spent the last eight years designing and developing all-electric vehicles and the last three years commercializing an all-electric Type C school bus. The company has already deployed more than 150 eLionC’s, with more than a million miles driven. Lion has the biggest fleet of all-electric Type C school buses in North America.
In addition to distributing the eLionM and eLionC, Lion will also introduce the eLionA this summer, an electric minibus designed to meet school transportation requirements.
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