BUSMAKERS R & D - Canada
* Quebec invests $30 million in electric-vehicle manufacturing for international market
Montreal,Quebec,CAN -The Montreal Gazette/Jark Business, by J. Taylor -March 12, 2012: -- Public-private partnership to produce green buses ... The Quebec government announced on Wednesday that it was investing $30 million in an ambitious $73-million public-private project that plans to develop electric buses for the international mass-transportation market... The funding is intended to give the province a leg up over the competition and a chance to become an innovation leader in the burgeoning global electric-vehicle industry... The announcement was made by Quebec Premier, Jean Charest, Wednesday morning at the headquarters of St. Eustache-based Nova Bus, the main supplier of buses used on Montreal Island... A non-profit organization, Consortium Bus Electric, has been established to manage the project. The group plans to produce two different size aluminum electric-bus models...
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