Agreements were signed with dealers in southern Alberta, Toronto, and Montreal.

Vicinity made its presence known to the APTA visitors by displaying the Vicinity Lightning featuring Exro’s ‘two speed’ inverter and announced two new Level 4 AD trial projects.

Vehicle deployment is to take place on the 120 acre campus in mid-2024.

The two companies have announced plans to integrate Adastec’s ‘Flowride.ai’ technology with the ‘Vicinity Lightning’ battery electric bus.

The Ferndale facility has the capacity to produce up to 850 ‘Vicinity Classic’ and ‘Vicinity Lightning’ (i.e., ICE and EV) buses and 6,250 ‘VMC 1200’ battery electric trucks per year.

The cement and concrete manufacturer, based in Calgary, Alberta, is looking to transition its fleet to 100% electric vehicles with Vicinity Motor’s Class 3 ‘VMC 1200’ trucks.

The results showed that the Canadian CV manufacturer's revenues dropped by over 55% from USD41.7m in 2021 to USD18.5m.

The focus of the two companies is to focus initially in the smaller buses, i.e. 28 to 30 foot transit bus segment.

The credit facility is being provided by the Royal Bank of Canada and Export Development Canada to fund production of its Class 3 electric trucks.

According to an agreement between the two companies, Omega will be authorised to upfit and resell VMC 1200 trucks with aluminium tanks and vacuum truck hose reels for cleaning sewers, septic tanks, and grease traps.

The Canadian manufacturer received an order for 1,000 VMC 1200 trucks from Pioneer Auto Group, its exclusive dealer in the province of British Columbia.

The VMC 1200, with a gross vehicle weight rating of 12,000 lbs (over 5 tonnes), is fitted with a 120-kW motor and lithium-ion batteries providing up to 150 kWh of energy and a range of up to 180 miles.