Nova Bus is a bus manufacturer in North America owned by Volvo Buses and headquartered in Saint-Eustache, Quebec Canada

History

The factory was originally a General Motors plant for building public transit buses intended for the Canadian market. In 1987 GM divested its entire bus holdings by selling them to Motor Coach Industries (MCI), itself formed from companies formerly owned by Greyhound Lines The plant was used to produce the Classic (transit bus) model for sales in Canada, while GMCs Rapid Transit Series (RTS) product was moved to join MCIs own designs at Transportation Manufacturing Corporation in Roswell, New Mexico MCI decided to divest its urban rapid transit models in 1993, and Nova Bus was created to take over the Classic and RTS models at the Saint-Eustache and Roswell plants. The Classic and RTS were later dropped in order to concentrate on the Nova LFS a low floor city bus, which was introduced in 1995 The last Classic model was produced in 1997. Sales of Nova LFS proved uncompetitive and Nova Bus closed their Roswell and Niskayuna (town), New York plants in 2002 to concentrate all efforts on the Canadian market. The Roswell plant was later taken over by a local consortium, Millennium Transit Services but this effort went bankrupt in 2008. However the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), with 483 LFS units in its active bus fleet, remains one of the larger Nova Bus operators. On February 2, 2008, Nova Bus announced plans for the construction of a new assembly plant in Plattsburgh, New York signifying the companys return to the U.S. bus market. The plant opened for business on June 15, 2009.http://www.pressrepublican.com/homepage/local_story_033054524.html "Bus-assembly plant proposed for Plattsburgh"], The Press Republicanlt;/ref> Its first US order under American production came from the New York City Transit Authority for ninety LFS Articulated buses (one of which is pictured to the right). In March 2010, Nova Bus received the first US-built order for its redesigned LFS from Honolulu County, Hawaii s TheBus (Honolulu) The 24 buses will arrive in Fall 2010 with plans to order more in the future.http://www.novabus.com/press/news-list/city-of-honolulu-partners-with-nova-bus.html Press release from Nova Bus (March 11, 2010)]

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Current

File:Nova LFS rears.jpg he current model from Nova Bus is the Low Floor Series, offered in three types: the LFS, LFS Articulated, and the LFX. The powertrain layout mounted on the left at the rear was changed to a center-mounted powertrain with ventilation from the roof on all LFS models starting in 2009 Some demonstrators and test buses in 2008 already had this layout. All Low Floor Series buses are wide. The LFS version is in mass production and has been since 1995; the LFS Articulated and LFX models entered production in 2009. A hybrid version of the LFS was introduced in 2006 using an Allison E^P40 parallel hybrid system. A single-door suburban version is also available.

Past

| class"wikitable" style"font-size: 100%;" | |- ! Model ! Length ! Width ! Photo ! Years Produced ! Notes |- ! [[Rapid Transit Series]] (RTS) | * * * | * * | File:GGT NovaBus RTS Single.jpg lt;br />File:MBTA Crosstown Bus 0276.jpg lt;br />File:Snap0430.jpg | 1995–2004 | * Developed by General Motors Diesel Division Buses (1977 2003 , (although no longer produced by NovaBus, a small company named [[Millennium Transit Services LLC|Millennium Transit]] purchased the rights to build them) |- !Classic (transit bus) |{{convert|12.19|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} |{{convert|2.59|m|in|0|abbr=on}} |[[Image:Metro Transit 979 new livery.jpg|100px]] |1995–1997 | *Developed as a redesign of the original [[GMC New Look]]) originally produced by [[General Motors Diesel Division|GM]] (1983–1987), then [[Motor Coach Industries|MCI]] ([[1987]]-[[1993]]) *Air conditioning optional. |- !TC60102N |{{convert|18.29|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} |{{convert|2.59|m|in|0|abbr=on}} |[[File:Metro Transit 708.jpg|100px]] |1993 | |} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category}} *[http://www.novabus.com/index.aspx?lang=EN-CA Official site] {{Portal|Companies}} {{North American bus builders}} [[Category:Bus manufacturers]] [[Category:Companies based in Quebec]] [[Category:Companies established in 1993]] [[Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of Canada]] [[Category:Volvo]] [[Category:Volvo Buses]] [[Category:Hybrid electric bus manufacturers]] [[Category:Motor vehicle assembly plants in Canada]] [[fr:Nova Bus]] [[pl:Nova Bus]] [[ru:Автобусы Nova Bus]] [[sv:Nova Bus]]

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