New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of New Flyer Industries Inc., announced that deliveries of zero-emission buses (ZEBs) in 2016 reached their highest level in company history, delivering 213 equivalent units (EUs) in 2016. This ZEB milestone was a dramatic increase of 48% from 144 ZEB EU’s delivered in 2015, and represents 8.3% of New Flyer’s total heavy-duty transit bus production in 2016.
“New Flyer believes that zero emission acceptance has now hit a breakthrough level for the heavy-duty transit market in 2016,” said Wayne Joseph, president, New Flyer. “We estimate that approximately 255 EU’s of the heavy-duty transit bus deliveries in 2016 were zero emission, and New Flyer is proud to have delivered more than 83%.”
