Last month the Lion Electric Company delivered five all-electric school buses to Twin Rivers Unified School District in Sacramento which were funded by the California Energy Commission as part of the School Bus Replacement Programme in the state.

The New York operator, MTA has awarded Volvo Buses’ Canadian subsidiary, Prévost Car of Sainte-Claire, two contracts for up to 330, X3-45 commuter coaches, with a firm order of 307 vehicles to be delivered between 2020 and 2022, and options for 23 additional coaches.

Dana Corporation has announced its majority-owned electric motor subsidiary, Dana TM4, has taken full control of TM4’s former joint venture company with Prestolite in China.

New Flyer of America Inc has announced an order from the Connecticut Department of Transportation for 50, forty-foot heavy-duty Xcelsior clean-diesel buses.

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.

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. 

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).