New Flyer Invero

The New Flyer Invero, also called the D40i, was a 40-foot low-floor transit bus that New Flyer Industries built from 1999 to 2007. New Flyer designed it to replace the Low Floor line, with a more streamlined body, larger windows, better heating, more seats, composite materials to save weight and the air conditioning unit moved to the front roof. That raised front roofline led some operators to nickname the bus Beluga. A prototype was shown at the October 1999 APTA trade show in Orlando, but financial difficulties left New Flyer unable to sell buses for about 18 months until late 2002, and few Inveros were sold in all. Most had a conventional diesel engine. Four were converted to diesel-electric hybrids for Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, and a hydrogen fuel cell demonstrator ran in Winnipeg in 2006. OC Transpo of Ottawa was the largest customer, and the Xcelsior replaced the Invero and the Low Floor in 2008.