Zero-emission electric truck plant opens in Kelowna, B.C.
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Industries around the world are looking for cleaner options in order to reduce their emissions and a new facility in Kelowna is hoping to provide exactly that.
Industries around the world are looking for cleaner options in order to reduce their emissions and a new facility is hoping to provide exactly that.
Wednesday was an electrifying day for the staff of Hexagon Purus with the opening of their facility in Kelowna, B.C.
Employees from around the world, elected officials and more were invited to tour the new plant.
“For me personally, it’s over 20 years in the making to get to this point with the factory in Kelowna, so very exciting. This is one of five factories that we’re opening around the globe this year,” said Hexagon Purus EVP Todd Sloan.
Hexagon Purus serves customers across the globe and works directly with companies like Toyota, Panasonic and Samsung. One of the new features of the zero-emissions plant will be an assembly line to build electric battery systems.
“We also do all the engineering work to design systems so we can build complete battery electric commercial trucks. We also have engineering here for building hydrogen fuel cell versions of the same trucks,” said Sloan.
With more clean energy options becoming available across the world, Kelowna is taking steps to be a part of that process. One of city council’s priorities is to look at things from a climate standpoint and Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas says this facility does exactly that.
“We’re seeing more and more of that and technology like that and this company coming to town will lead the path that way because it is an industry which is creating good jobs. It is a clean industry and it is an industry that is in demand,” Dyas said.
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