Electrical truck, bus, and college bus maker Lion Electrical at present introduced that it’s produced its first lithium-ion battery pack at its manufacturing unit in Mirabel, Quebec.

Lion Electrical’s Li-ion batteries

That first battery pack’s remaining certification is anticipated to happen within the first quarter of 2023, and Lion says it would steadily ramp up manufacturing of its batteries subsequent 12 months.

The primary batteries Lion produces in Mirabel will probably be used to energy its Lion5 truck and the LionAmbulance. Each of these new fashions are anticipated to achieve business manufacturing within the first half of 2023.

As soon as it’s totally up and operating, Lion’s battery manufacturing unit is anticipated to have an annual manufacturing capability of 5 gigawatt-hours of battery capability.

Lion has additionally lately celebrated the beginning of manufacturing at its US automobile manufacturing unit in Joliet, Illinois.

Yannick Poulin, Lion’s chief working officer, mentioned:

The manufacturing of our first battery pack out of our Mirabel battery facility is a vital step for Lion and will, over time, convey with it a brand new stage of optimization for product design and manufacturing effectivity.

Electrek’s Take

A “new stage of optimization,” certainly. Lion now making its personal batteries in the identical place it makes its EVs in Canada ought to lead to a a lot smoother and cost-effective provide chain for the corporate.

It’s good to see Lion undertake the vertical integration mannequin, a lot as Tesla has executed with Panasonic in Nevada with its personal batteries. Conventional EV makers have traditionally relied on outsourced suppliers, and bringing battery making in-house is a brilliant transfer.

Lion is definitely not going to have any scarcity of shoppers, as electrical college buses at the moment are in excessive demand. And with the home manufacturing incentives that include the US Inflation Discount Act, I wouldn’t be shocked to see Lion Electrical launch this in-house battery-making mannequin at its manufacturing unit in Illinois as effectively.

Learn extra: The primary US-made LionC zero-emission electrical college bus rolls off the manufacturing unit line in Illinois

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