RCA Motors

RCA Motors, LLC was a bus manufacturer formed in 2020 to take over the former Gillig manufacturing plant in Hayward, California and continue construction of the Gillig Phantom buses that were built there. The company was composed mostly of former Gillig employees and financed by the city of Hayward, the State of California, and Pioneer Bank.

On July 27, 2021, the company announced its first major order: 68 transit and 221 suburban buses for Sound Transit. Full delivery of this order was expected to commence late in the third quarter of 2021, but "the inability to obtain necessary funds" forced the cancellation of the order. All units completed for Sound Transit at that point were rejected and resold to King County Metro (five transit), Community Transit (Snohomish County, Washington) (one transit and one suburban), and Toronto Transit Commission (25 transits).

Besides the Sound Transit order, RCA had secured a contract from the The Regional Municipality of York, ON, to convert 25 Transportation Manufacturing Corporation-built RTS buses from diesel to clean-burning CNG. The second order was from Calgary Transit for two transit buses. The Sound Transit order was actually the third order for RCA. Other orders included those from Metropolitan Transportation Authority and OC Transpo. These latter two have since been canceled.

On February 26, 2022, RCA suspended production of its buses in order to do a full inventory of its Hayward facility. The factory reopened in the summer of 2022; however, RCA had yet to win any significant orders to date, since the cancellations.

A map check in 2023 appears to indicate that RCA no longer exists as an entity, and their facilities at 42 W-Earl Cummings Loop is now a vacant building and lot. The whole property, formerly occupied by RCA, is available for lease as of January 28, 2023.