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N° 04 Manufacturing File 04.020

Edison Motors

Canadian clean-tech company building diesel-electric hybrid trucks and EV conversion kits. Maker of Canada's first production hybrid-electric truck.

Edison Motors website preview Fig. 01 — Case 020
Edison Motors — Manufacturing · Donald, BC
N° 04a The Case File — Edison Motors

The case file.

Edison Motors came to us with a problem most companies would envy: an audience growing faster than their digital infrastructure could handle. With a YouTube following in the hundreds of thousands and a movement-like community behind their diesel-electric hybrid trucks, every product announcement and merch drop sent a wall of traffic at a storefront that needed to stay up, stay fast, and feel as serious as the engineering behind it.

We rebuilt their site on Astro with a WooCommerce backend, splitting the heavy commerce logic from the marketing pages so the parts of the site people actually browse render almost instantly. Product pages, EV conversion-kit information, and merch were reorganized around how their community actually shops, and the whole build was deployed on a global edge network so a video going live never translates into a slow checkout.

The result is a storefront that absorbs traffic spikes without flinching, loads in well under two seconds on mobile, and presents Edison as the credible Canadian clean-tech manufacturer it is — not a hobby project. As the catalog and dealer programs expand, the architecture is built to grow with them.

N° 04b The Build Sheet — What shipped

How it was built.

I. Industry

Manufacturing

Donald, BC

II. Service line E-commerce

Stores built to sell

III. Stack
  • 01 Astro JS
  • 02 TypeScript
  • 03 Tailwind CSS
  • 04 WooCommerce
IV. Live address edisonmotors.ca

Shipped & live on the open web.

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