Lion Electric Inaugurates Electric School Bus Factory in Illinois
JOLIET, IL—This blue-collar city 40 miles southwest of Chicago was once famous for steelmaking and a notorious prison. Today, Joliet is home to Lion Electric Co.'s new factory, which the Canadian company claims is "the largest all-electric U.S. plant dedicated to medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicle production."
The much-hyped 900,000-square-foot facility recently celebrated its official opening with a diesel fuel hose “ribbon” cutting ceremony attended by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.