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California, SamTrans procures 108 fuel cell buses from New Flyer

New Flyer received a new firm order for 108 zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell Xcelsior Charge FC 40-foot transit buses from San Mateo County Transit (SamTrans), marking the largest single fuel cell bus order in New Flyer’s history. The contract for 108 buses was added to New Flyer’s backlog in Q2 202...

New Flyer sources battery modules from American Battery Solutions

American Battery Solutions (ABS) has signed a multi-year contract with New Flyer to supply custom battery packs for the manufacturer’s newest 35-, 40-and 60-foot battery-electric transit buses. NFI is now launching ABS batteries into bus production for customer deliveries starting in the first...

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COTA (Ohio) orders a new batch of 8 New Flyer e-buses

The Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) has exercised options for eight battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses from New Flyer. The order comes in the final year of a two-year contract originally announced in 2020, and includes four ABB depot chargers from NFI Infra...

New Flyer awarded up to 565 hybrid buses in Toronto

TTC Toronto has contracted up to 565 buses with New Flyer. The contract includes 134 Xcelsior forty-foot hybrid-electric buses, and 68 Xcelsior sixty-foot hybrid-electric buses (136 equivalent units) for a total of 270 EUs. The two four-year contracts include options for up to additional 263 forty-f...

New York’s MTA turns to New Flyer with an order for 60 e-buses

New Flyer has received a new contract from the New York City Transit Authority for 60 battery-electric, zero-emission Xcelsior CHARGE NG forty-foot heavy-duty transit buses. The order is supported by Federal Transit Administration funds and advances NYCT’s goal to reduce New York City’s carbon footp...

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Council launched in the US

The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Council (HFC Bus Council) has formed a first-of-its-kind national coalition of public transit agencies, manufacturers, and suppliers working together to advance the hydrogen fuel cell electric bus economy and its applications in the public transit sector. Founding members ...

New York, CDTA orders four New Flyer Xcelsior CHARGE

New York gets greener with New Flyer. After the order for 15 ebuses from New York City Transit, New Flyer has been chosen from the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) for the supply of four forty-foot (12 meter), battery electric buses Xcelsior CHARGE. New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions...

NFI takes over Alexander Dennis

Alexander Dennis’s story as an independent bus builder has come to an end. The British company, the world’s leading manufacturer of double decker buses, has been taken over by the Canadian group NFI for 405 million dollars (some 360 million euros). The operation aims to “create a m...
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