Automotive

DuraMag to build, upfit electric vehicle vocational bodies for Firefly

DuraMag will build food and parcel delivery vans, as well as landscape, dump and flatbed utility bodies for the FireFly electric vehicles at the company’s facility in Waterville, Maine.

By The Buzz Staff Writers
March 23, 2021

DuraMag has announced it will engineer, manufacture and install vocational body upfits for ev Transportation Services’ (evTS) FireFly vehicles.

DuraMag will build food and parcel delivery vans, as well as landscape, dump and flatbed utility bodies for the FireFly electric vehicles at the company’s facility in Waterville, Maine.

The FireFly ESV is a zero-emission lightweight utility vehicle specifically designed to meet the needs of the essential services transportation and urban e-mobility markets. End-user applications include parking management, security and perimeter patrol property management, first response services, sanitation and last-mile on-demand urban delivery of parcels and food.

Lightning eMotors ZEV3 van gets Buy America certification

Lightning eMotors’s ZEV3 passenger van boasts up to 200 miles of range.

By David Sickels
March 16, 2023

Lightning eMotors has announced that its Class 3 Lightning ZEV3 all-electric passenger van is Buy America certified. This certification, along with Lightning eMotors’s Altoona Testing certification, makes the Lightning ZEV3 fully eligible for funding through the $4 billion Federal Transit Administration Low- and No-Emissions grant program, and positions Lightning’s products for other incentives such as the Federal Aviation Administration’s zero-emission airport shuttle program (Buy American).