Lion Electric’s Joliet Plant Operating Significantly Below Capacity As Us And Canadian Subsidies Lag

John Lippert, Chicago Tribune: Business
Tue, 07/30/2024 - 3:00am

As Illinois Democrats welcome their party’s national convention next month, one of their crown jewels for environmental activism — an electric school bus factory — is fighting for its life. In Joliet, 40 miles southwest of the Chicago convention site, the parking lot at the Lion Electric Co. is eerily quiet. On a recent weekday, it had just over 100 parked cars for employees and visitors, along with acres of empty blacktop.

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