Gov. JB Pritzker was ecstatic when he announced that a Canadian electric bus company named Lion Electric would open. They planned to produce 10,000 buses a year.
However, the company just suspended operations at the Lion Electric Joliet plant and laid off more than half of its workforce.
Will Pritzker tell how much money was subsidized by Illinois taxpayers? And how many buses have actually been built so far? And what type of tax breaks were given to this company?
Unfortunately, these green energy deals always end up failing. It’s happening right now with Rivian, the electric car company. They are basically bankrupt. And just like the tens of thousands of electric car charging stations promised by “Mayor Pete” (Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg), there is little…
