Lightning Systems adds to product line

LOVELAND – Loveland’s Lightning Systems has added to its product line with an all-electric system.

Lightning Systems produces mainly hydraulic-hybrid vehicles. The electric system is for the Ford Transit van in partnership with Michigan-based New Eagle.

The Loveland Reporter-Herald reported that vehicles equipped with the system will go on sale in early 2018, according to a press release from Lightning Systems and New Eagle.

Lightning Systems is a 9-year-old Loveland company formerly called Lightning Hybrids. The company’s technology stores energy in a hydraulic accumulator as a vehicle brakes…