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Winnipeg-based New Flyer Industries has been awarded Canada’s largest ever electric bus contract by Montreal and Laval.

The contract includes 40, forty-foot, zero-emission electric buses. New Flyer won the bid, beating out two other competitors and now serves all 25 of the largest transit agencies in North America. The buses are expected to hit roads in Quebec in 2020.

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Montreal will receive 30 of the buses while Laval will get 10. Both cities operate battery-electric bus pilot programs. Both Montreal and Laval have committed to only purchasing electric buses by 2025 and 2023, respectively.

“New Flyer is proud to deliver on Canada’s largest battery-electric, zero-emission bus procurement, bringing electric mobility to the communities of Laval and Montréal,” said Jennifer McNeill, vice president of sales and business development at New Flyer, in a release on Friday. “We remain committed to creating more livable cities through engineering smarter and more efficient buses, and working collaboratively with industry leaders such as STL and STM to deliver connected, zero-emission public transit solutions.”

New Flyer has over 44,000 buses in service across the continent, including New York, Toronto, Vancouver and Los Angeles. Some 7,300 of those buses are electric powered and 1,600 of them are zero emission.