The Tindo bus is the stuff of car-free, green, geeky dreams: It epitomizes efficient urban transportation and energy use, and to top it all off, it’s free. Our friends at EcoGeek first tipped up off to the story.
The world’s first solar-powered, electric bus hit the streets of Adelaide, Australia and has been catching rays—and kudos—ever since. (Tindo, an apropo name for the solar bus, is an Aboriginal word for “sun.”)
From the Adelaide City Council:
Manufactured by New Zealand company Designline International, the bus doesn’t have a combustion engine, which makes it a very quiet, zero emissions vehicle…
And in a further ‘green’ development being introduced by the Adelaide City Council, the bus will be recharged using a solar photovoltaic system supplied by BP Solar and installed at the soon-to-be-completed Adelaide Central Bus Station.
This system is the largest grid connected solar photovoltaic system in the State, and means the bus is also carbon neutral.
The bus, which can carry up to 42 passengers, is also air-conditioned. We think that’s pretty hot.
See also: Public Transportation Could Save the World and Hasselt Proves Free Public Transit Works.
Photo via flickr by tromasbronot.
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The future is here! The “Ugly Americans” who oppose it with vigorous rejection are the same who’s pockets are now filled with worthless greenbacks, deflated to pay off Wall Street Bankster’s crimes and their Golden Parachutes for retirement in the Cayman Island paradises of the world! We are finally rid of the slime! Now for a Solar life away from the Oil Barons and their bribes, and onward into the deserts of Mexico and South Western U.S.A. to build Solar Power installations and a new desert civilization, lots of power, no pollution, few germs, Underground shelters for aquaponics and pest free gardens, and buses, Solar powered and clean! Live in filthy New York City if you must! I see a new frontier on the horizon, financed by the power they harvest, by cleaning their mirrors nightly in the desert cool! Living daily under the protection of the same mirrors, and desert sands, safe and invisible, a crime free world unto itself! Humanity is only beginning to populate the earth, and the “American Dream” paradigm is dying and slowly riding into the sunset, on a two cylinder radial engined throw-back to another glory time, the Harley Davidson, rider complete with Stetson hat, Barbi-Doll surgically enhanced with plastic, Military badges pinned on chest and all ! Rejoice the “Fourth Turning” of America, the birth of age of the “Intellectual American”, the end of militarism, warring, and the birth of the true “Age of Aquarius ” for the Americas, a time of music, science and sustainable development, a time of controlled, not rampant, breeding, a time of DNA and Stem-cell research, the beginning of the greatest era ever for mankind, sanity at the helm, the old schools closed forever, and corporatism dead and buried by rational laws! May The greater deities bless the people of the Western world and the whole world with common sense and decency towards one another, sustainable in synchonicity with nature, not opposed as before, and aided by her many mysteries not crippled by her forces as once was! Solar buses, the first few sprouts of a new reality for mankind! Spawned in such sorrow, showing promise for all! Bravo Australia! A use for your Sun!