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Canadian Firm Chooses Joliet for Largest Electric-Vehicle Plant in U.S.
Lion Electric Company, a Canada-based manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, said Friday it will build a 900,000-square-foot facility in Joliet, IL, its first-ever U.S. manufacturing facility and the largest plant of its kind in the country. The company will spend at least $70 million to build a new facility dedicated to producing medium and heavy-duty electric vehicles (EVs) in the U.S.
The facility is expected to come on line in the second half of 2022. Lion is targeting annual production capacity of 20,000 zero-emission EVs a year, and creating at least 745 jobs in the region.
“Lion’s historic investment to bring its largest production facility to Illinois represents not only a win for our communities, but a strong step forward in our work to expand clean energy alternatives and the jobs they bring to our communities,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Friday.
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