{"id":2878,"date":"2018-06-01T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T08:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-bus.com\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2018-06-01T10:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T08:57:32","slug":"lion-electric-building-full-electric-minibus-for-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sustainable-bus.com\/electric-bus\/lion-electric-building-full-electric-minibus-for-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion Electric, the full electric minibus for North America ready in summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
An electric low floor midi\/minibus built in order\u00a0to meet paratransit (transit of\u00a0physically challenged persons), transit and urban requirements and able to travel 150 miles (240 km) on a single charge. It’s the project of Lion Electric (Lion), innovative company that recently unveiled its new vehicle, named eLionM<\/strong>. Indeed, the company\u00a0is expanding its portfolio beyond electric school buses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Lion Electric Co. took occasion of the Movin\u2019On event 2018, in Canada, to reveal its brand new project, manufactured in the company plant in Quebec. The eLionM features\u00a0the integrated \u201cBi-Fold\u201d access ramp<\/strong> and kneeling system, in order to meet the needs of people in wheelchair. The 149 kW electric drive can carry\u00a0up to 22 passengers and will be offered with two battery options, 80 or 160 kWh for a range 120 km or 240 km per charge respectively. A 19.2 kW charger is embedded while a fast DC charge (SAE-Combo) is available as an option. The eLionM also features battery swapping with the packs coming from LG Chem.<\/p>\n The eLionM electric minibus will become available in North America this summer. Furthermore, the Canadians want to launch their LionA around the same time. It is an electric minibus designed to meet school transport requirements.\u00a0Lion Electric makes its own chassis, battery packs and body, that is not so common in this category.<\/p>\n \u201cThe launch of this new vehicle represents a major achievement for Lion, our society and our environment,\u201c mentioned Marc Bedard<\/strong>, Founder and CEO at Lion. \u201cThe will serve so many purposes that we already nicknamed it our \u201cSwiss Army Knife\u201d! This 160 kWh vehicle is one of a kind and is not a retrofit<\/strong>; it\u2019s a custom-built, zero-emission and energy efficient solution specifically built with transportation operators and agencies in mind.\u201d\u00a0Peter Rego<\/strong>, Lion\u2019s Chief Commercial Officer USA, also stated that \u201cwe already started taking pre-orders<\/strong> 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 USA and it\u2019s clearly just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n Not only buses:\u00a0Lion will also start manufacturing a new complete line of all-electric trucks in 2019<\/strong>, leveraging the technologies developed over the last eight years and specifically looking at specialty medium to heavy-duty urban trucks (classes 5 to 8). The vehicles will range from ambulances, service trucks, cranes and delivery trucks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An electric low floor midi\/minibus built in order\u00a0to meet paratransit (transit of\u00a0physically challenged persons), transit and urban requirements and able to travel 150 miles (240 km) on a single charge. It’s the project of Lion Electric (Lion), innovative company that recently unveiled its new vehicle, named eLionM. Indeed, the company\u00a0is expanding its portfolio beyond electric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[333],"tags":[388,387,389],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
Lion Electric, the new project launched at Movin’On<\/h2>\n
eLionM by Lion Electric, ready for this summer<\/h2>\n
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Lion Electric started to take pre-orders<\/h2>\n
Electric truck by Lion Electric are coming<\/h2>\n