“Money waste”: they are angry with the lion buses “made in Quebec”

Lion school bus owners are in furious that the manufacturer refuses to repair their vehicles … Nevertheless, because they are located outside Quebec.

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“There are 3. However, 400 Lion school buses in the United States. Moreover, This is an important figure, “illustrates Valérie Tremblay, spokesperson for the Canadian Alliance for the electrification of school buses.

“On Ile-Prince Edouard, the government is completely trying to get rid of its 100 lion vehicles on its 300 fleet,” she says.

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Valérie Tremblay. However, Photo taken from Linkedin

It is a letter from the accounting firm Deloitte. Similarly, responsible for the restructuring of the insolvent company, which had the effect of a bomb on July 15.

We learn that Lion will not honor the guarantees of vehicles belonging to owners from outside Quebec.

“All the guarantees. all the purchase orders you may have with the Lion group are therefore no longer legally assumed by the company,” you write black on white in the missive.

It is a group led by real estate investor Vincent Chiara who bought the manufacturer at the end of May. after the renewal of a subsidy program of almost $ 480 million in the electrification fund and climate change.

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Lion benefits from the school transport electrification program. Provincial public aid for the purchase of a bus increased from $ 175,000 to $ 240,000 per unit. Photo taken from court documents

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In a press release. the new owners said they wanted to concentrate “exclusively on electric school buses, entirely assembled in Quebec, and intended for the local market”.

Lion then promised to respect the guarantees and “maintenance services and the supply of parts” for the 1000 buses with us.

But in the United States and the rest of “money waste”: they angry lion Canada, it’s another pair of sleeves.

Talk to the Los Angeles Unified School District, which has 28 Lion bus.

“In the future. we will endeavor to include long-term maintenance and support requirements for future electric school bus contracts,” said one.

Five months ago, school boards had raised several red flags.

“Very frustrating situation”

Au JournalBecky Foley. acting superintendent of the Winthrop Public Schools, in Maine, did not chew his words at the place of lion.

“It was a waste of money and created a very frustrating situation,” she said.

Its two Lion “money waste”: they angry lion buses have never transported students, “because they did not work long enough to do so”.

She said she believed in electric buses. but not those built by Lion, which were funded by the Environmental Protection Agency.

“I have two lion buses. one of them is currently broken down with a limited, even non-existent support, and I am very concerned and completely disappointed that the guarantee is not respected,” shared Robyn Stephenson, operations manager for the 20 Columbia-Kootenay, British Columbia School District.

The newspaper failed to reach Vincent Chiara on Tuesday. The company also did not respond to our interview requests.

Lion ex-employees recently met the integrated team of the Financial Market Police of the Royal Canadian Gendarmerie. In mid-April, the financial market authority had received more complaints against the manufacturer, who aims to become a flagship.