Nova Bus Ending US Production

[Glennwood Road Ent.]

On 3/17/2025 at 8:34 PM, Busjack said:

In the case of transit buses, the tariff war is fairly irrelevant, due to Buy America Act requirements for 70% US content and assembly in the US (besides legislation having the effect of barring BYD). Basically, Volvo decided it couldn't make money in the U.S. market, so it pulled Prevost and Nova Bus out.

The video is pretty self-explanatory.The only tariff question is whether that would affect Micro Bird's business of making small school buses and cutaways. But the small bus assembly business seems too crowded already.

Only thing that definitively can be said is that, like RevGroup, Volvo was able to unload the property.

Yeah @Busjack and that's dirty politics and game right there. Trying to keep my replies short here instead of politicizing on this transit forum here. I soon post it on a new thread titled "Tariffs and Bus manufacturers" once I got updates there. 

I heard US President Donald Trump's political bullcrap coming from across the border and around the world about the US Trade Tariff war against Canada, Mexico and China including the world went into effect last week dubbed Liberation Day and in my beliefs, the stocks will go down except for the global economy too. 

Anyway back to this point, I trying to figure out who will be the last one American customer of the USA built NovaBus LFS later on this year?  

[NewFlyerMCI]

On 4/10/2025 at 1:26 AM, Glennwood Road Ent. said:

Anyway back to this point, I trying to figure out who will be the last one American customer of the USA built NovaBus LFS later on this year?

It'll be one of the following:

• CTA: undertaking delivery of options 4 & 5 from the 2022 order
• WMATA: awaiting 5 LFSe+ buses from a 2023 order (although, these could end up like CTA's promised LFSe buses)
• MTA NYC: also awaiting 5 LFSe+ buses from a 2023 order. Were confirmed to be built in early 2024, at least one has been confirmed delivered March 2025
• MTA Maryland: Undertook delivery of ~70 LFS buses beginning in September 2024. Likely finished, but I can't confirm

Assuming the WMATA order is real/doesn't vanish into thin air, it'll likely be them. If not, then likely CTA since in theory, it shouldn't take forever to delivery 5 buses (although it did take at least a year). Good odds that CTA #8849 will be the last US-produced and delivered Novabus.