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Busses
Adelaide's solar/electric bus.
The world’s first (who knows if true) solar-electric city bus (named Tindo which is the local Aboriginal word for sun). Actually it is a New Zealand-built 25-seat, electric bus (nominally) recharged by a 50kW solar array on the roof of the new Adelaide bus station. Tindo has 11 Swiss-made Zebra batteries – as used by the SolarTaxi – which has two. It goes 200 km on an overnight charge, and can be ‘boost charged’ at a roadside pylon at the rate of 1 minute per km of charge required. For more details see www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/adccwr/publications/guides_factsheets/tindo_...
Wellington's trolley busses with batteries.
The lines between different classes of vehicles get a bit blurred. Trolley busses are regarded as "grid connected" vehicles (via overhead wires), but now Wellington's trolley busses have batteries! Check this out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8gWXBhVYKQ
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