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MONTREAL, Sept. 3, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ - The Lion
Electric Company (NYSE: LEV) (TSX: LEV) ("Lion" or the "Company"),
a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban
vehicles, has officially kicked off its participation in the
North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) and Rocky
Mountain Institute's (RMI) Run on Less – Electric challenge in
partnership with Day & Ross, a top North American
transportation and logistics company.
The Lion6 trucks operated by Day & Ross have a range of 200
miles on a single charge and will be used for the company's pickup
and delivery routes. The company is currently conducting evaluation
testing at its facilities to aid in future electric
deployments.
Run on Less – Electric is a best-of-the-best cross-country
demonstration of real-world electric trucking technologies. This
year's event will feature participants from 13 fleets covering a
variety of class 3 to class 8 vehicles, including delivery vans,
medium-duty box trucks and heavy-duty tractor-trailers operating in
the U.S. and Canada, where the Day
& Ross truck will be operating routes in the Montreal area. Data from the three weeks will
be used by NACFE and RMI demonstrate the benefits of
electrification, including lower cost of ownership and reduced
emissions, as well as to evaluate items such as required
infrastructure, training needs and more.
"It is great to be kicking off our participation in this year's
Run on Less event with these new trucks for the Day & Ross
fleet. Run on Less is a fantastic platform for us to showcase the
benefits of heavy-duty electrification available today with trucks
that are entering service, measured against some of the best
technologies and largest players in the market," said Marc Bedard, Lion's CEO and Founder.
"This investment is a critical step in our emission reduction
strategy," said Bill Doherty, CEO of
Day & Ross. "These electric trucks will help us evaluate how
this technology performs within our supply chain, as well as how
they will help us meet our long-term sustainability goals."
All of Lion's vehicles are purpose-built for electric propulsion
from the ground up and are manufactured in North America. Over the last decade, Lion has
established itself as a leader in the zero-emission heavy-duty
vehicle industry, having delivered over 400 all-electric heavy-duty
vehicles in North America with
over 8 million miles driven since 2016.
ABOUT LION ELECTRIC
Lion Electric is an innovative manufacturer
of zero-emission vehicles. The company creates, designs
and manufactures all-electric class 5 to class 8 commercial
urban trucks and all-electric buses and minibuses for the school,
paratransit and mass transit segments. Lion is a North
American leader in electric transportation and designs, builds
and assembles all the key components of its vehicles, including
chassis, battery packs, truck cabins and bus bodies.
Always actively seeking new and reliable technologies, Lion
vehicles have unique features that are specifically adapted to its
users and their everyday needs. Lion believes that transitioning to
all-electric vehicles will lead to major improvements in our
society, environment and overall quality of life. Lion shares are
traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock
Exchange under the symbol LEV.
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and maintain relationships with customers, suppliers and other
business partners, that Lion will continue to operate its business
in the normal course, that Lion will be able to implement its
growth strategy, that Lion will be able to successfully and timely
complete the construction of its U.S. manufacturing facility and
its Quebec battery plant and
innovation center, that Lion will not suffer any material
disruption in the supply of raw materials on competitive terms,
that Lion will be able to maintain its competitive position, that
Lion will continue to improve its operational, financial and other
internal controls and systems to manage its growth and size and
that its results of operations and financial condition will not be
adversely affected, that Lion will be able to benefit, either
directly or indirectly (including through its clients), from
government subsidies and economic incentives in the future and that
Lion will be able to secure any required additional funding through
equity or debt financing on terms acceptable to Lion. Such
estimates and assumptions are made by Lion in light of the
experience of management and their perception of historical trends,
current conditions and expected future developments, as well as
other factors believed to be appropriate and reasonable in the
circumstances. However, there can be no assurance that such
estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct.
By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on
circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. Lion
believes that these risks and uncertainties include, but are not
limited to, the following: any adverse changes in the U.S. and
Canadian general economic, business, market, financial, political
and legal conditions, including as consequences of the global
COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of COVID-19 variants and
varying rates of vaccination amongst various countries; Lion's
inability to successfully and economically manufacture and
distribute its vehicles at scale and meet its customers' business
needs; Lion's reliance on key management and any inability to
attract and/or retain key personnel; Lion's inability to execute
its growth strategy; Any unfavorable fluctuations and volatility in
the price of raw materials included in key components used to
manufacture Lion's products; Lion's reliance on key suppliers and
any inability to maintain an uninterrupted supply of raw materials;
Lion's inability to maintain its competitive position; Lion's
inability to reduce its costs of supply over time; any inability to
maintain and enhance Lion's reputation and brand; any significant
product repair and/or replacement due to product warranty claims or
product recalls; any failure of information technology systems or
any cybersecurity and data privacy breaches or incidents; the
reduction, elimination or discriminatory application of government
subsidies and economic incentives or the reduced need for such
subsidies; natural disasters, epidemic or pandemic outbreaks,
boycotts and geo-political events; the outcome of any legal
proceedings that may be instituted against the Company from time to
time.
These and other risks and uncertainties related to the
businesses of Lion are described in greater detail in the section
entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's final prospectus dated
May 5, 2021 (the "Canadian
Prospectus") filed with the Autorité des marchés financiers (the
"AMF") and the registration statement on Form F-1 (the
"Registration Statement") filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") and declared effective on June 14, 2021 and other documents publicly filed
with the AMF and the SEC. Many of these risks are beyond Lion's
management's ability to control or predict. All forward-looking
statements attributable to Lion or persons acting on its behalf are
expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements
contained, and risk factors identified, in the Canadian Prospectus,
the Registration Statement and other documents filed with the AMF
and the SEC.
Because of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, readers
should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements. Furthermore, forward-looking statements speak only as
of the date they are made. Except as required under applicable
securities laws, Lion undertakes no obligation, and expressly
disclaims any duty, to update, revise or review any forward-looking
information, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise.
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