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Lightning eMotors Adds Production Capacity, Space to Meet Growing Demand From Fleets for Electric Vehicles
January 21, 2021 GMT
Assembled electric powertrains ready for installation into Lightning Electric Transit 350HD vehicles. (Photo: Business Wire)
LOVELAND, Colo. (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 21, 2021
Lightning eMotors (“Lightning eMotors” or the “Company”), a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, today announced it is expanding to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles from commercial and government fleets.
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Assembled electric powertrains ready for installation into Lightning Electric Transit 350HD vehicles. (Photo: Business Wire)
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Lightning eMotors (“Lightning eMotors” or the “Company”), a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, today announced Teresa Covington as its new chief financial officer. Covington will join Lightning’s senior leadership team and lead the company’s finance and investor relations teams as it transitions to being a public company as a result of its announced business combination with GigCapital3, Inc. (“GigCapital3”) (NYSE: GIK).
Teresa Covington, CFO of Lightning eMotors. (Photo: Business Wire)
Most recently, Covington served as chief financial officer for asTech, a leading cloud-based automotive technology and diagnostic services provider. Prior to joining asTech, Covington was the head of the global finance organization at AeroVironment, a publicly traded technology company in aerospace and defense that designs, manufactures and distributes unmanned aerial vehicles. The
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Lightning eMotors (“Lightning eMotors” or the “Company”), a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, today announced a $45 million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Faribault, Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. The first zero-emission motorcoach was delivered in December.
The T2145e electric motor coach undergoing final testing in Colorado. (Photo: Business Wire)
The order includes a mix of new vehicles manufactured by Lightning eMotors, as well as new zero-emission powertrain systems developed by Lightning eMotors to be upfit by ABC Companies into customers’ previously operated vehicles.
Under the order and partnership, Lightning eMotors has trained ABC Companies personnel to install and service Lightning Electric powertrain systems. In addition to Class 8 motorcoaches, the order from ABC Companies includes Class 3 Lightning Electric Transi
Lightning eMotors delivers first all-electric motorcoach to ABC Companies; order for 200 ZEVs
The T2145e electric motor coach undergoing final testing in Colorado.
The order includes a mix of new vehicles manufactured by Lightning eMotors, as well as new zero-emission powertrain systems developed by Lightning eMotors to be upfit by ABC Companies into customers’ previously operated vehicles.
Under the order and partnership, Lightning eMotors has trained ABC Companies personnel to install and service Lightning Electric powertrain systems. In addition to Class 8 motorcoaches, the order from ABC Companies includes Class 3 Lightning Electric Transit passenger vans, Class 4 Lightning Electric E-450 shuttle buses, Class 5 Lightning Electric F-550 shuttle buses, and Class 7 transit buses.