LIGHTNING NEWS

Lightning eMotors Adds Production Capacity, Space to Meet Growing Demand from Fleets for Electric Vehicles With the addition of 107,000 square feet, Lightning eMotors now using 231,000 square feet of space at its Loveland, Colorado facility, with first right of acceptance for over 500,000 square feet of additional manufacturing space New space to be used [...] Read more

Lightning eMotors Appoints Teresa Covington as its CFO With over 25 years of C-level experience in public and private companies, Covington poised to help Lightning as it transitions to being a public company and help the ‘fast-growing’ fleet electrification company succeed. LOVELAND, Colo., Jan. 12, 2021 – Lightning eMotors (“Lightning eMotors” or the “Company”), a [...] Read more

Lightning eMotors Delivers First All-Electric Motorcoach to ABC Companies, Receives Order for 200 Zero Emissions Vehicles ABC Companies, a premier provider to the transportation industry, places $45M order for 200 additional electric vehicles ranging from Class 3 Transit passenger wagons to motorcoaches. The motorcoach platform is the 7th zero-emission platform developed and manufactured by Lightning [...] Read more

New Generation 4 Lightning Electric Transit Class 3 Van Introduced by Lightning eMotors 2021 model offers both battery-electric and fuel cell electric variants with up to 250 miles range and up to 105 kWh of battery capacity Available in passenger van, cargo van, school bus, ambulance and RV configurations First shipments expected in the second [...] Read more

Urban Commercial Zero-Emission Vehicle Company Lightning eMotors to List on New York Stock Exchange Through Merger with GigCapital3, Inc. Lightning eMotors is the leading innovator in the US commercial medium-duty Electric Vehicle (“EV”) market with proprietary vehicle control software, EV chassis integration software and analytics, along with custom products including DCFC mobile charging solutions, and [...] Read more

LOVELAND, Colo., Oct. 20, 2020 – Lightning Systems, a leading provider of complete electrification solutions for commercial fleets, today announced that it is expanding and renaming the company to Lightning eMotors, effective immediately. “When we originally selected Lightning Systems as our name, our product strategy was focused on fleet-related subsystems and software,” said Tim Reeser, [...] Read more

LOVELAND, Colo., Oct. 8, 2020 – Lightning Systems, a provider of complete electrification solutions for urban commercial fleets, today announced that Fluid Truck, a national truck rental platform, will incorporate 600 Lightning Electric vehicles onto their platform, with availability starting in Q4 2020. Fluid Truck, a technology-based truck rental platform, empowers businesses to easily rent [...] Read more

Municipalities, counties and transit agencies can meet climate change, sustainability goals by purchasing all-electric, zero-emission buses through the California contract  LOVELAND, Colo., Sept. 24, 2020 – Communities throughout California can now purchase zero-emission, all-electric (ZEB) shuttle buses and ADA-equipped vans from Lightning Systems on a new California Association for Coordinated Transportation (CALACT) cooperative purchasing contract. [...] Read more