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New Flyer enters into partnership for medium-duty bus
New Flyer Industries announced a joint venture Monday morning with British bus-maker Alexander Dennis Limited to produce a smaller medium-duty bus for the North American market.
New Flyer will be responsible for sales, marketing, manufacturing and aftermarket support with Alexander Dennis performing engineering, test and prototype development activities. Prototypes of the New Flyer/Alexander Dennis midi bus for North America will be built this summer, with a planned market launch in early 2013.
It will be a partnership between the largest North American heavy-duty bus maker and UK’s leading bus and coach manufacturer which employs around 2,000 people at facilities in the U.K., Asia and North America.
The medium-duty, low-floor midi bus will be offered to both public transit and private operators and will have propulsion system options ranging from clean diesel, electric hybrid and compressed natural gas.
New Flyer estimates the market for this type of product could be approximately 1,000 buses per year.
The partnership was announced this morning at the American Public Transportation Association’s Bus & Paratransit Conference held this year in Long Beach, Calif.
"Transit operators are faced with unprecedented pressure to operate and adapt their fleets in today’s tough economic conditions", New Flyer’s CEO, Paul Soubry said in a prepared statement. "With the escalating costs of fuel and maintenance, there are many of our transit customers’ routes that do not require a full sized heavy-duty bus with a 12-year design life. Customers on both sides of the border have asked us to provide a bus that meets their needs for this application."
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