Nova Bus wins major order in Quebec

Transit agencies in Quebec, Canada, are going to spend almost a half-billion dollars buying 509 diesel-electric hybrid buses from Nova Bus, a Volvo-owned company, with an option to buy another 679. The 509 new buses will cost $471 million and will be delivered between 2014 and 2016.
July 9, 2012 Read time: 1 min
RSSTransit agencies in Quebec, Canada, are going to spend almost a half-billion dollars buying 509 diesel-electric hybrid buses from Nova Bus, a 609 Volvo-owned company, with an option to buy another 679. The 509 new buses will cost $471 million and will be delivered between 2014 and 2016.

As part of a separate deal, the Quebec government also has approved the purchase of 45 more articulated diesel buses, at a cost of $900,000 each, 10 of which are to be delivered this year and the rest next year. This order is an extension of a previous order that has seen the delivery of 202 articulated buses.

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