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    <periodOfReport>2021-07-13</periodOfReport>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001802749</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>Lightning eMotors, Inc.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>ZEV</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001390808</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Miotto Neil</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O LIGHTNING EMOTORS, INC.</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>815 14TH STREET SW, SUITE A100</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>LOVELAND</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>CO</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>80537</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>1</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2021-07-13</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>17167</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
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                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>19117</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2021-07-13</value>
            </transactionDate>
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                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
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            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>17167</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F2"/>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
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            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>36284</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
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                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
        <nonDerivativeHolding>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
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                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>4985000</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>I</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
                <natureOfOwnership>
                    <value>By GigAcquisitions3, LLC</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F3"/>
                </natureOfOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeHolding>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Subject to the Reporting Person's continued service to the Issuer, 17,167 of such RSUs vest as follows: 1/3 will vest on the day prior to the Company's 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and 1/3 will vest on each of May 6, 2023 and May 6, 2024.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Subject to the Reporting Person's continued service to the Issuer, 17,167 of such RSUs vest as follows: 100% on the day prior to the Company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The Common Stock is held directly by GigAcquisitions3, LLC (the &quot;Sponsor&quot;). Mr. Miotto is a member of GigFounders, LLC, which has a financial and voting interest in the Sponsor as a member of the Sponsor and that entities this partnership to participate in any economic return of the Sponsor in accordance with terms negotiated with the other holders of financial and voting interests in the Sponsor. Accordingly, the shares of Common Stock held by the Sponsor, subject to the interests of such other holders, are indirectly and beneficially owned by Mr. Miotto by virtue of his financial interest in GigFounders, LLC.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Neil Miotto</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2021-07-15</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
