Lion Electric’s venture in Joliet is over, plant on auction block – Shaw Local

Pritzker, Durbin and others initially emphasized that the Lion Electric factory, located in a leased 900,000-square-foot building at 3835 Youngs Road, was the first auto assembly plant to open in the Chicago area in more than 50 years.
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Fed up neighbor
1 year ago

So, we’re did all the subsidies taxpayers money go.

The Railroader
1 year ago

Some found its way into political coffers. Guess which party…

Old Spartan
1 year ago

Total scam from the beginning. Lion had no customers lined up, no book of orders, no real business plan except living off federal and state handouts. The busses never worked as promised. They were junk and the pols knew it but kept pushing the phony scenario. Pritzker will get tattooed on this pretty good if he ever tries to run nationally. This is just one chapter of the multi billion dollar cesspool of woke green fraud that the Dems have foisted on taxpayers, with busses, solar panels, batteries and all the other lefty bogus technology that never made any economic… Read more »

The Railroader
1 year ago

“Herscher navigating changes” As the great Daffy Duck would say, “That’s rich, I’ll say.” Future Illinois six figure pensioner Richie Decman bought into the Climate Religion using Uncle Fed’s money. School superintendents don’t usually hang around a school district too long, lest the taxpayers tire of incompetent shenanigans. When these pricy bus substitutes inevitably fail, Richie will no doubt be on to his next pensioned superintendent’s job, leaving Herscher schools with sunny feels about pretending to save the planet, but greatly reduced or perhaps nonexistent bus service. With one of these prizes already stuck in the shop, I would guess… Read more »

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