that powered a battery or two I think that kept the bus moving.
It didn’t need gas but ran on electricity.
It could run forever on nothing, but electricity.
But the state or city said he couldn’t use it because it had to pass some city code.
Is this true or a urban legend?
That’s an easy one, an electric motor large enough to power a bus requires WAY more amperage than a bus roof full of solar panels. Even if you could get 20 50amp Solar panels on top of a bus, the output would be roughly 1000 amps over 14 hours on a very sunny day. A thousand amp motor would not run a 30,000 pound bus!
Here’s a bunch of solar panels: http://www.wholesalesolar.com/solar-panels.html?source=ask
Notice the low amperage. So lets say we bought the ones for 24 volts and ran two 24 volt batteries in parallel, how far would you be able to power an electric motor that would be powerful enough to run a bus. Remember, the 3 or 4 amp out put is measured over a long summer day. You’d need most of a football field full of panels to have enough power to do this.