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Posted By: NorthernDog, 12/4/2024 9:25:48 AM

CHANNAHON, Ill. -- Lion Electric, which manufactures electric buses, will suspend its operations at its Channahon facility, the company announced in a press release Tuesday. The company announced the suspension of operations at the plant as well as temporary layoffs of about 400 workers across the company, which is based in Canada. The layoffs leave Lion Electric with about 300 workers. The plant in Channahon opened in July of 2023 and was set to produce up to 20,000 vehicles a year. The plant was the first dedicated vehicle assembly plant in the Chicago area since 1965. In a statement, Joliet Mayor

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Reply 1 - Posted by: downnout 12/4/2024 9:40:07 AM (No. 1848004)
I feel sorry for the workers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 12/4/2024 10:04:48 AM (No. 1848026)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE&t=17s There's a theme here, and a theme song.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: seamusm 12/4/2024 10:10:11 AM (No. 1848033)
Temporary layoffs?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Old Army Vet 12/4/2024 10:15:48 AM (No. 1848044)
The USA is not ready for EVs nor do we want them. Give it up dimmokkrats, they won't sell.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 12/4/2024 10:22:17 AM (No. 1848048)
EVs were 'the technology of the future' in 1878 when they first came out. Still are waiting for those 'just around the corner' improvements in batteries to get range and charging times to where people would actually want one. How many hundreds of millions of government money was skimmed off to the top management in this one?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Quigley 12/4/2024 10:23:37 AM (No. 1848052)
The Poor Kamel!! What next? Venn diagrams? Maybe Doug can slug a couple of girls to cheer her up. There's always a nanny to knock up.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: sunset 12/4/2024 10:25:38 AM (No. 1848055)
These electric mass transit businesses are created and exist only by the grace of the profligate government payouts. Even then, they end up on their books as bankrupt more times than not. Boeing-Vertol streetcar company and ETI electric trolley bus company both were created only for the government transfer of wealth and ceased existing after government funding stopped.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 12/4/2024 10:28:37 AM (No. 1848057)
Save one for KamaLOL! The poor dear would be lost without an electric school bus. And maybe we can dig out Ralph Kramden's old uniform - - for Dougie. Beep Beep! Outta my way!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: joew9 12/4/2024 10:31:03 AM (No. 1848060)
In order for electric to become viable the batteries need to have 3 times more energy and also a reduction in size by a factor of 3 or more. That comes out to 9. So in short, batteries need to get 10 times better. And that's not going to happen until about year 2100. If ever. It's going to take time. No amount of wishing. No amount of statements from people who are not technologists that the technologists will find a way. No amount of some leader demanding. Huge breakthroughs in battery science have to happen.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Starboard_side 12/4/2024 11:25:38 AM (No. 1848103)
EV's don't work well in the cold, or heat, over long distances. Zero emissions is an aspirational goal but not realistic in the timeline demanded by the mandates pushed by the Democrats. The best option for EV vehicles would be U.S. Postal trucks that deliver the daily mail where they only travel short distances and have a place to have them charged overnight for the next day.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Rumblehog 12/4/2024 11:32:15 AM (No. 1848109)
Since 1965... so much for the skill and business acumen of today's Business School MBA's who populate most CEO positions in American Corpocracy. According to recent studies, some 20% of prisoners serving time are sociopaths (i.e. they don't care about anyone or anything except themselves and their success), whereas 25% of corporate executives also share sociopathy as a "skillset."
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mc squared 12/4/2024 12:00:16 PM (No. 1848127)
Anyone want to send their kids to school on a lithium powered bus?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 12/4/2024 12:00:53 PM (No. 1848128)
In operation for 1.5 years. That's quite a track record. It sucks to be stupid.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Safari Man 12/4/2024 12:02:17 PM (No. 1848129)
Lying Electric.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Strike3 12/4/2024 12:04:34 PM (No. 1848131)
The alternative to batteries is to bury electric rails in every highway or install overhead lines. That would cost more money than every government in the world can steal from its people.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: kono 12/4/2024 12:38:05 PM (No. 1848149)
Careful reading might be helpful, especially for aficionados of the popular purveyor of copiously-frosted cinnamon pastries ( This is talking about a place named Cinnahon, IL -- not a company called Cinnabon.)
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Reply 17 - Posted by: kono 12/4/2024 12:40:28 PM (No. 1848153)
(see, it got me again -- CHANNAHON, not Cinnahon... humble apologies)
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Reply 18 - Posted by: seamusm 12/4/2024 1:27:56 PM (No. 1848178)
What a sad waste of money and worker's hopes.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: NamVet70 12/4/2024 1:28:57 PM (No. 1848180)
Electric busses are an even more dangerous fire hazard than electric automobiles.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: DVC 12/4/2024 3:23:22 PM (No. 1848240)
Company based in Canada. And "Lyin" Electric is a heck of a name.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: JHHolliday 12/4/2024 4:59:44 PM (No. 1848274)
#9 is correct. Maybe 25-30 years out. They need some battery breakthrough, a quick charge and more range. Right now I can fill my Toyota Camry in 10 minutes and go 400 miles plus there are thousands of gasoline stations across the country. Eventually they will be viable but I will be long gone by then. BTW, I have an EV. It's called a golf cart,BTW I must admit that I have an EV. It's called a golf cart and it's perfect for drivin around in my little lake community. In the meantime, I will stick to those planet killing vehicles.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: DVC 12/5/2024 12:41:31 AM (No. 1848429)
"planet killing vehicles" Au contraire! The wonderful CO2 put out by our hydrocarbon fueled vehicles helps enhance the atmosphere to assist all green plants in growing more easily and efficiently. CO2 levels are so low now that if there were any sort of an emergency, it would be a LOW CO2 emergency, risking death to all green plants which would end life on this planet. And I suspect that #21 was being sarcastic with the comment.
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