Lion Electric Co (The)

The Lion Electric Co. manufactures zero-emission vehicles, which creates, designs, and manufactures all-electric class 5 to class 8 commercial urban trucks and all-electric buses and minibuses for the school, paratransit, and mass transit markets. The company is headquartered in Saint-Jerome, Quebec and currently employs 1,350 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2021-05-07. The firm designs and manufactures all-electric school buses, midi/minibuses for special needs or urban transit, as well as urban trucks. Each Lion vehicle is purpose-built for electric and designed and assembled in-house, with its own chassis, truck cabin or bus body, battery technology with modular energy capacity and Lion software integration. Its purpose-built all-electric trucks can be divided into four main platforms based on gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR), namely the Lion5, Lion6, the Lion8 and the Lion8 Tractor trucks, and its line-up of all-electric buses consists of Type A, Type C and Type D buses. Its medium and heavy-duty electric vehicles (EVs) are specifically designed to address the needs of the sub-250-mile mid-range urban market. The company complements its product offering with various services, including sales support, full-service training, charging infrastructure assistance and maintenance support.