Transport committee  With respect to the entire supply chain, Lion Electric sourced large numbers of essential products like motors, suspensions and batteries. However, we didn't anticipate the shortage of certain items, like glue and all sorts of electronics. I will give you an example. We develope

Transport committee  To accelerate the electrification of transportation, we truly believe there are several factors involved: legislation, incentives, the supply chain and speed. Regarding the third factor, the supply chain, if you develop more local expertise, you're going to increase volume and r

Transport committee  In our opinion, it makes sense to bring in legislation that will foster product development and manufacturing in Canada. As we've always said, you have to build where you sell. That's really important to us. We will certainly support policies that help foster green development.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee. As you may know, Lion Electric is the leader in electrification of transportation. We're an OEM and we build medium- and heavy-duty all-electric trucks and buses. Every day, we help make Canada one of the cleanest economies in the world and he

Industry committee  I'm not into all of the details, but we have had discussions with some of them which are very serious. These are really expensive investments that need to be done, so you need someone who has the expertise to be able to produce these cells and then also have the right capital to

Industry committee  Right now, it's lithium-ion. Yes, that's correct.

Industry committee  Yes, lithium plays a major role.

Industry committee  Mostly Asia and Europe.

Industry committee  It's in Korea.

Industry committee  Sure. A cell is what critical minerals are transformed into. Then you put the cells into the modules. I can't remember, but I think it's 360 cells that we're going to put in the module, and then we're going to put them in the packs—about 11 modules in a pack, I think. It has

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Yes, I think that's correct. We need some lithium that comes from Canada.

Industry committee  No. We're going to be contracting out that service. We're not going to be building cells.

Industry committee  As we speak right now, yes. There are no cell producers in Canada.

Industry committee  There are a couple of companies who have showed interest for sure, yes.