Solar electric bus

An air-conditioned 26-seat solar electric bus, with a range of around 200 kilometres, is operating in Adelaide, Australia. The Adelaide City Council owns "Tindo", the first electric bus that can be recharged using solar energy, which began operation in 2008. [http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=EC142p7b.pdf Solar electric bus for Adelaide] ]

"Tindo" is the aboriginal word for sun, and the vehicle’s power will come from a solar photovoltaic (PV) system installed on the roof of the new
Adelaide Central Bus Station. The solar PV system generates almost 70 000 kilowatt hours of zero-carbon-emissions electricity each year – the city’s largest grid-connected PV system.

The few existing electric buses in operation elsewhere are smaller, have a shorter range, and do not have a 100 per cent solar-electric capability.

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* [http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/757/39121 One solar-powered bus is not enough]