The North American school bus operator has ordered 260 LionC buses which are set to be delivered through to the first half of 2023.

The system, developed jointly by Lion Electric and Geotab, collects data which can be used to optimise all aspects of electric fleet operations.

The facility, expected to be completed in the second half of 2022, is being constructed on a 1.6-million sq ft site close to the Montréal-Mirabel International Airport.

Production at the new 90,000 sq ft manufacturing facility is set to begin in the second half of 2022.

Over 100 Lion8 trucks will be acquired over a four-year period by Heritage Environmental Services of California.

Following the merger and a USD490m transaction, Lion Electric began trading its equity shares on 7 May.

Green Mountain Power will receive a Lion8 bucket truck and a Lion6 stake body truck from Lion Electric in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

TUPY SA, Westport Fuel Systems Inc and AVL List GmbH have announced a collaboration to develop a hydrogen internal combustion engine for heavy goods transportation.

AC Transit, which operates in the San Francisco Bay Area, has ordered an additional 20 fuel cell electric buses from New Flyer of America.

Westport Fuel Systems Inc on June 8, 2021, through public offerings on the US Nasdaq Exchange and Canadian Toronto Stock Exchange of 20,930,000 shares at USD5.50 a share, generated USD115,115,000.00 in gross proceeds.

Apollo Tyres Ltd of Gurugram, says it has now entered the truck-bus tyre segment in the USA and Canada and developed tyre range that meets the demand of the North American commercial fleets. It says it has a phased product rollout to cover some 90% of the truck and bus market by 2024.

Motor Coach Industries of Des Moines, part of the NFI Group, has unveiled its first two battery-electric zero-emission coaches for the North American market within weeks of each other.