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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Uncle B said:

Australia, land of huge Solar potential, will prosper and become the new Jerusalem - renewable solar power frees us from the tyranny of the oil barons and lets technology we have developed using oil support the new benzine molecule free civilization! We are a Blessed people, and we have come to a new level. We are not beyond the evils of patent law, and the last restraints to a really free world, but the Chinese are leaders in this, they simply ignore them. Mankind's future is brightening. We are done with the nuclear age and have moved into a saner more humane world. Than God!

October 05, 2008

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