New Flyer Industries Canada ULC announced the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium and Brampton Transit have jointly secured CD11.15m in federal funding from Natural Resources Canada to support the adoption of zero-emission transit buses.

New Flyer Industries Canada ULC has supplied the public transit system its first zero-emission, battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE bus.

BYD Company of Shenzhen has expanded its North American operations by opening its first bus assembly plant in Canada. Located in Newmarket, Ontario, the site provides a 45,000 square-foot facility and is the first new electric bus plant to open in Ontario in a generation.

Cummins Inc has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, all the issued and outstanding shares of fuel cell systems provider, Hydrogenics Corporation, for approximately USD290m.

BYD Inc has expanded operations in North America by opening its first electric bus assembly plant in Newmarket.

New Flyer of America Inc said a test demonstration for the Orange County Transportation Authority achieved 350-miles of zero-emission range with a New Flyer forty-foot, heavy-duty hydrogen fuel cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 bus.

New Flyer has announced its New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions division has successfully deployed two rapid, on-route chargers along New York City Transit Authority’s M42 route.

NFI Group Inc - North America’s largest and most diversified bus and coach manufacturer - has acquired Britain’s largest bus and coach builder, Alexander Dennis Ltd, for GBP320m; this represents an implied purchase multiple of 7.3 x ADL’s fiscal year 2018 adjusted earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation and on a cash-free, debt-free basis, subject to certain adjustments. 

NFI Group Inc in March reported record new vehicle deliveries of 4,313 EUs in the year ending 2018, and up by 12.7% from 3,828 in 2017.

New Flyer of America Inc (a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc), has delivered the first of five Xcelsior CHARGE battery electric buses to Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet).

Winnipeg-based NFI Group has launched, what it is calling its Autonomous Technology Programme which is to be developed by its New Flyer of America Inc and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC subsidiaries.

Dana Incorporated launched its latest direct-drive electric powertrain, the TM4 SUMO LD at the ACT Expo 2019.