The remaining units are slated for Penticton, Quesnel and Dawson Creek. Nelson Transit is the first community in BC to receive the Vicinity bus. The Vicinity, a 39-passenger bus with seats for 23 and standing room for 16 people, is part of a $4-million contract with Grande West Transportation of Aldergrove.Īlthough the bus was assembled in China, the majority of its parts including brakes, transmission, control systems and engine are North American or European made. The Vicinity, which Nelson has two going into service soon, is a 27.5-foot low-floor medium duty bus designed in Canada BC Transit feels is a perfect size for the smaller rural cities. “We’re very comfortable with the size of the new Vicinity Bus and think it fits the community itself and believe it will be well served,” Achadinha added. “Here’s a community that transit is incredibly popular but the 40-foot (Novabus) vehicle might be too big and in the past we haven’t had a bus that is the right size for this type of community.” “The reason why we’ve brought the new (Vicinity) bus to Nelson is to test them out,” Manuel Achadinha, President and Chief Executive Officer for BC Transit, said during Thursday’s unveiling. The competition was part of BC Transit’s unveiling of the new Vicinity busses that are expected to be twisting and turning in and around Nelson streets in the next few weeks. We look forward to deploying our new Vicinity buses into revenue service in 2024.When Mayor John Dooley figures he’s pounded the gavel for the last time in council chambers, there’s a job waiting for him in at Nelson transit.ĭooley, along with Castlegar Mayor Lawrence Chernoff and Nelson Star reporter Sam Van Schie, worked some magic behind the big steering wheels during a BC Transit bus rodeo Thursday at the City of Nelson Public Works Yard on the waterfront. This latest order comes on the tail of a renewal and new additional contracts with EXO in Quebec. In a statement, Transdev Canada's CEO, Arthur Nicolet, expressed satisfaction with the collaboration between the two companies, commenting: "Vicinity and Transdev Canada have developed a strong and fruitful collaboration as we have grown our business in Canada over the last decade. The buses will be deployed to serve the greater Montreal area in Quebec. The company said Transdev has placed an order for forty-two 32-foot clean-diesel Vicinity Classic buses, with delivery scheduled for 2024. (TSX-V:VMC) said it has secured a new purchase order for Vicinity Classic buses from global mobility leader Transdev Canada Inc. Operations are expected to commence in 2021. The company has finalized the design specifications and is wrapping up the permitting for the facility, which is not too far from its Aldergrove, British Columbia location. The US headquarters in Washington State that will be capable of producing 1,000 units annually across all sizes and power systems. Vicinity also has added EV trucks to its portfolio. It recently entered into the medium-duty truck market with the development of a fully electric Class 3 vehicle. Its flagship Vicinity Lightning medium-duty EV bus, enabled through a tier-1 strategic supply agreement with BMW batteries and components, seeks to lead the global transition to more sustainable transit vehicles in the private and public markets. A fourth heavy-duty EV bus is currently under development. The company has three bus models - heavy-duty (diesel and CNG), medium-duty (electric vehicle EV), and light-duty (gasoline, diesel, and CNG). Currently, more than 500 of its buses, which carry an average sales price of $400,000, are in operation. The company’s line of Vicinity buses, which maintain a dominant market share in Canada (90%), are produced by the company’s world-class manufacturing partners whom the company says can ramp up production to 2,000 units per year. The company was formerly known as Grande West Transportation Group Inc and changed its name to Vicinity Motor in March 2021. Vicinity Motor Corp is a leading supplier of electric, compressed natural gas (CNG), gasoline, and clean-diesel buses for both public and commercial enterprise use in the US and Canada.
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