The world is marching ever closer to an era of battery-electric commercial vehicles, and a business in Boucherville, Que.
Blue Solutions manufactures so-called “solid state” batteries, which unlike lithium-ion batteries are lithium metal polymer designs.
“It is very resistant to external temperatures, be it very cold or very hot … and we have no cooling or temperature maintenance systems external to the battery.
For example, Blue Solutions’ French factory produces batteries for electric shunt tractors manufactured by Gaussin, which are used in markets such as New Zealand.
Multiple award winner over his 30-year career, he contributes to trade publications such as Today’s Trucking, Truck News and Transport Routier, as he previously did for Montreal daily newspapers La Presse’s and Le Devoir’s financial pages.