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Lion Electric Co. is moving at lightspeed.
Since May, the St. Jerome-based electric truck and bus company has listed publicly on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange, closed a merger with a special purpose acquisition company Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp. that raised about $500 million, and announced a new manufacturing facility in Illinois, to add to an existing facility in Quebec.
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“Some people say they lost the year from COVID, but I cannot say that,” said Marc Bedard, chief executive and founder of the company, who also received a new grandchild during that time.
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airBaltic Takes Its 26th Airbus A220-300 And First In 2021
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Latvian national flag carrier airBaltic said in a statement released today that it had just taken delivery of its latest Airbus A220-300 and that it is the first of seven planned deliveries this year. The aircraft registration number YL-AAZ departed Montréal-Mirabel International Airport (YMX) at 15:29 EDT for the just under eight-hour flight landing at Riga International Airport (RIX) at 06:26 EEST.
airBaltic has an all-Airbus A220-300 fleet. Photo: airBaltic
The plane is a part of a 50 aircraft order airBaltic placed with Airbus along with a further option for 30 of the same aircraft. airBaltic has its main hub at Riga International Airport (RIX), with secondary hubs at Tallinn Airport (TLL) in Estonia and at Vilnius Airport (VNO) in Lithuania. From these Baltic states, airBaltic operates flights mostly to metropolitan and leisure destinations within Europe.
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