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Orion Bus Industries is a Mississauga , Ontario , Canada -based bus manufacturer established by the government of Ontario in 1975. It was known as Ontario Bus Industries until 1995 and was created to produce buses for the province's transit agencies in the late 1970s. It was also the supplier of buses to the Toronto Transit Commission in the 1990s. In 1982, OBI opened a plant in the US ( Oriskany, New York ) under Bus Industries of America or BIA to manufacture buses for the US market. Orion Bus Industries was the first bus manufacturer to use Compressed Natural Gas as an alternative fuel on the Orion I model in 1988 and it is also the first one to use on diesel hybrid electric on the Orion VI model, making them the leader of alternative fuels market. Orion was acquired by DaimlerChrysler in July 2000, and is now part of DaimlerChrysler Commercial Buses North America . PRODUCTS Discontinued
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