120 JOBS CUT AT LION ELECTRIC

By Anne Bourgoin

The Québec-based manufacturer of electric buses has announced the layoff of 120 workers. “Current market dynamics, particularly delays encountered with the Canadian Federal Zero Emission Transit Fund, are having a persistent negative impact on our school bus deliveries, forcing us to make a further reduction in our workforce,” said Lion Electric CEO and founder Marc Bédard.

The employees who will lose their positions are “mainly based in Canada in corporate and product development functions,” he added in a press release issued on April 18th. The company assures us that these cuts will have no negative impact on production.

The Minister of the Economy, Pierre Fitzgibbon, reacted by pointing out that in Québec, a program was in place to support the purchase of electric buses, and that if it existed at the federal level, it would help. “There are no other Canadian companies producing electric buses,” he added.