Pritzker is in on it, too. The greed of a Democrat is never satisfied.
Lion Electric Falls Apart In Joliet: No More Electric Buses Here
A Canadian news site broke the news revealing that Joliet's manufacturing location will no longer be making any more electric school buses.
John Ferak | Dec 2, 2024 | 3:43 pm CTJOLIET — It's been more than three and a half years since Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker visited Joliet to reveal that Lion Electric, a Canadian electric-bus manufacturing company in Quebec, will open its first United States automobile manufacturing plant in Joliet. On Monday, CBC News, a Montreal-based outlet, broke the story that Quebec-based Lion Electric continues to have bad news — so much bad news that Joliet's manufacturing plant of the electric buses is coming to an end.
Back in 2021, Joliet Patch reported that Lion Electric intended to produce more than 10,000 electric vehicles per year at full capacity at the Joliet property at 3835 Youngs Road, off Route 6. Lion Electric occupied a newly built 906,517-square-foot industrial building and claimed it would make an investment of about $120 million in new machinery and equipment.
Then on Monday, a Canadian news outlet published the following headline: "Quebec's Lion Electric temporarily lays off more than half of remaining workforce." The story reported that "manufacturing operations at its plant in Joliet, will be halted due to the layoffs. . . .
https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/lion-electric-falls-apart-joliet-no-more-electric-buses