/PRNewswire/ - Lion Electric (Lion), a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, today announced that it has secured an order.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Tami Mueller of Sacramento waits in line to add her name to a vaccine waitlist at the Urgent Care Now in Arden-Arcade, California on Friday, February 19, 2021. Mueller has been unable to get a vaccine through her medical provider, so she is hoping, along with more than two dozen others in line, to get a same-day call to fill in for a COVID vaccine when a scheduled appointment cancels or is a no-show. (Jason Pierce/The Sacramento Bee/TNS)
Waiting and hoping: COVID-19 vaccine chasers seek out leftover doses in Sacramento
Benjy Egel, The Sacramento Bee, (TNS)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. About a dozen people lingered outside Sacramento State’s University Union around 3 p.m. Tuesday, waiting not for Starbucks or a student government meeting but for a chance at Covid-19 immunity.
Canada: Lion Electric Receives Order For 60 Electric School Buses ++ The electrification of school buses accelerates.
Lion Electric announced the largest single order for all-electric LionC school buses, placed by Autobus Groupe Séguin from Laval, Quebec, Canada.
In total,
60 LionC t llbe delivered over five years (through 2026), including the first 10 this year. This milestone order is the single largest to date in the electric school bus industry in North America. The first 10 buses will be delivered throughout the 2021 calendar year, and will be used from the start of the 2021-2022 school year, through the seven service centers operated by Autobus Séguin. Subject to continued satisfaction of certain conditions, the remaining 50 buses will be delivered through 2026.
January 6, 2021
One of the big things I m thinking about to kick off 2021 is how electric vehicles will be entwined with a U.S. recovery. Even before Joe Biden has formalized any green stimulus plans, the EV industry in the U.S. is showing important indicators that it will see solid growth this year and that means jobs. New industry jobs. Electric jobs. Climate jobs.
Recently I chatted with the CEO and founder of Lion Electric, an electric bus and truck maker based in Saint-Jerome, Quebec. Marc Bedard founded the company 12 years ago after working at a diesel school bus company in the 1990 s with the goals of eliminating diesel engines for school buses and diesel fumes from the air that school kids breathe.
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