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New Flyer to supply six battery-electric Xcelsior buses to Brampton Transit as part of CUTRIC supported zero-emission bus program
New Flyer to supply six battery-electric Xcelsior buses to Brampton Transit as part of CUT...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nNew Flyer to supply six battery-electric Xcelsior buses to Brampton Transit as part of CUTRIC supported zero-emission bus program\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nWINNIPEG, July 29, 2019\n\n\n\nWINNIPEG, July 29, 2019 /CNW/ - (TSX: NFI) New Flyer Industries Canada ULC (\"New Flyer\"), a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. (\"NFI\"), one of the world's largest independent global bus manufacturers, announced the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) and Brampton Transit have jointly secured $11.15 million in federal funding from Natural Resources Canada (\"NRCan\") to support the adoption of zero-emission transit buses. The NRCan funding furthers the government's commitment to renewable transit options and supports the purchase of eight electric buses for Brampton – six of which are New Flyers Xcelsior model.\n\n \n \n\n \nThe announcement, taking place at Brampton Transit's Sandalwood Facility, was made today by Minister of Environment and Climate Change, The Honourable Catherine McKenna, CUTRIC Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Josipa Petrunic, and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown. Today's announcement now confirms all participants of CUTRIC's Pan-Canadian Electric Bus Demonstration and Integration Trial have been funded. Other participants include York Region Transit and Translink.\nAs the Canadian leader in zero-emission bus (\"ZEB\") technology, New Flyer has been advancing innovation since its first ZEB delivery to the Toronto Transit Commission (\"TTC\") in 1968. Since then, it has delivered over 540 ZEBs across Canada. It continues to drive nationwide innovation and has supported CUTRIC's technical planning and design efforts with in-kind engineering contributions to the project's innovation portion, requiring more two years' worth of effort. New Flyer also supported CUTRIC in advocacy to secure clean energy project funding for Brampton Transit following cancellation of prior funding from Ontario's provincial government. \nThe NRCan funding also supports the purchase of four high-po...