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Nova Bus
Nova Bus is a Canadian bus manufacturer in North America, owned by Volvo Buses, and headquartered in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada.
==History==
Nova Bus's Saint-Eustache factory was originally a General Motors plant for building city transit buses intended for the Canadian market. In 1987 GM divested itself of its bus-building holdings by selling them to Motor Coach Industries (MCI), which had been formed from companies that had been owned by Greyhound Lines. The plant was used to produce the Classic model for sales in Canada, while GMC's Rapid Transit Series (RTS) product was moved to join MCI's 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 continue producing the Classic and RTS models at the Saint-Eustache and Roswell plants respectively.
The Classic and RTS were later discontinued 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, New York plants in 2002 to concentrate all efforts on the Canadian market. The Roswell plant was later acquired by a local consortium, Millennium Transit Services, that almost went bankrupt in 2008, then emerged from it in 2011. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), with 480 LFS units in its active bus fleet, remains one of the larger operators of Nova Buses.
On February 2, 2008, Nova Bus announced plans for the construction of a new assembly plant in Plattsburgh, New York, signifying the company's return to the U.S. bus market. The plant opened for business on June 15, 2009.〔("Bus-assembly plant proposed for Plattsburgh" ), ''The Press Republican''〕 Its first US order under American production came from the New York City Transit Authority for 90 LFS Articulated buses (counting LFS rigids operated by the same agency, the NYCTA now counts nearly 500 LFS buses in its active fleet). In March 2010, Nova Bus received the first US-built order for its redesigned LFS from Honolulu, Hawaii's TheBus. The 24 buses arrived in December 2010; there were plans to order more in the future, but since then TheBus chose to go with Gillig instead.〔(Press release from Nova Bus (March 11, 2010) )〕 In March 2012 the Walt Disney Company announced that it plans to test a Nova articulated bus on certain high traffic routes at the Walt Disney World Resort. In 2012 SEPTA placed an order for 315 buses which included 225 articulated buses to replace its aging Neoplan AN460 articulated buses & its remaining NABI 416 standard buses. In 2014 SEPTA finally rolled out their brand Nova Bus LFS HEV 62-102 articulated buses onto the streets of Philadelphia on October 27, 2014. In 2013 CTA placed an order for 300 40 foot Nova Bus clean-diesel buses, with an option to buy an additional 150.
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