Lightning eMotors Adds Production Capacity, Space to Meet Growing Demand from Fleets for Electric Vehicles
January 21, 2021 at 01:00 pm
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Lightning eMotors announced it is expanding to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles from commercial and government fleets. Three and a half years ago, Lightning eMotors moved its headquarters, manufacturing, and research and development into the nearly one-million-square-foot campus that was formerly used by Hewlett-Packard/Agilent in southwest Loveland, Colorado. Early last year, the company took over the entire building on the campus located at Southwest 14th Street and Taft Avenue, expanding its square footage from 45,000 to 124,000. Now it is adding another 107,000 square feet in an adjacent building, for a total of 231,000 square feet of space for its operations. Lightning has first right of acceptance on more than 500,000 square feet of additional manufacturing space if it determines customer demand requires the additional space. During the summer and fall of 2020, the company ramped up production by more than 600% and continues to increase production as its orders increase. In addition, the company recently doubled its workforce and expects to double it again this year.
Lightning eMotors, Inc. designs and manufactures zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) and charging infrastructure solutions for commercial fleets, large enterprises, original equipment manufacturers, and governments. Its products range from cargo vans, transit and shuttle buses, school buses, specialty work trucks, ambulances and electric power trains for school buses, transit buses and motorcoaches. It offers a range of vehicles, including passenger vehicles, cargo vehicles, ambulances, and others. Its Lightning ZEV3 Transit van platform is equipped with an electric drivetrain and, depending on the selected battery configuration, offers a 140-mile to 200-mile range. Its Lightning ZEV4 platform can be outfitted as a shuttle bus with a capacity of up to 18 passengers in many applications, such as airport parking, college and corporate campuses, and senior communities, or as a work truck, as a cargo van or box truck for middle- and last-mile deliveries, or as a Type 3 ambulance.
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