Zero-emission electric truck plant opens in Kelowna, B.C. – Okanagan | 24CA News
Industries world wide are searching for cleaner choices in an effort to cut back their emissions and a brand new facility is hoping to supply precisely that.
Wednesday was an electrifying day for the employees of Hexagon Purus with the opening of their facility in Kelowna, B.C.
Employees from world wide, elected officers and extra have been invited to tour the brand 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,” mentioned Hexagon Purus EVP Todd Sloan.
Hexagon Purus serves clients throughout the globe and works immediately with firms like Toyota, Panasonic and Samsung. One of the brand new options of the zero-emissions plant might be an meeting line to construct electrical battery programs.
“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,” mentioned Sloan.
With extra clear vitality choices turning into accessible the world over, Kelowna is taking steps to be part of that course of. One of metropolis council’s priorities is to take a look at issues from a local weather standpoint and Kelowna Mayor Tom Dyas says this facility does precisely 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 mentioned.
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The CEO of Hexagon Purus, Mortum Holum says lately the corporate has been rising rapidly, as extra individuals search for options to assist the local weather disaster.
Holum hopes Hexagon will be capable of slowly make a distinction in that space.
“The energy transition and moving the world away from fossil fuels and things that create carbon emissions and towards the more renewable energy society. This is two, three decades at least before we make a meaningful dent in that,” mentioned Holum.
The new Kelowna plant will make use of round 150 individuals.
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