It appears the bus in the incident is an Orion Bus Industries Orion VII NG Hybrid. Orion buses in this configuration store lithium-ion batteries in the rectangular dome on the bus's roof.

KELOWNA, B.C. – Freightliner has purchased Kelowna, B.C.-based Western Star Trucks and Orion Bus Industries for $670 million, ending months of speculation that a deal was in the works. Western Star ...

Daimler, Germany’s auto giant, announced Wednesday it’s shutting down its Orion bus plant in Mississauga, putting up to 390 people out of work.

Bus and train enthusiasts photograph the 196 York University Rocket as the last specimen of the TTC’s Orion V bus type makes its final run at Downsview Station.

Orion Bus Industries Ltd. Has developed the world’s first full-length transit hybrid electric bus in its Whitestown plant near the Oneida County Airport in Oriskany.

Education Sherrard, Orion school districts hit hard by bus driver shortage Both districts have turned to other employees - including nurses, janitors and superintendents - to help fill in the gaps.

But Jake Keyes, a spokesman for Daimler, which runs the former Orion Bus Industries plant in Mississauga where the buses are partly manufactured, said the battery problem was specific to Toronto's ...

As reported by The Globe and Mail in yesterday's paper and confirmed by Freightliner, the DaimlerChrysler unit is buying Western Star and its Orion Bus Industries Ltd. division after agreeing to ...