Proterra Ecoliner Electric Bus - Jay Leno's Garage
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Proterra Ecoliner Electric Bus. Will this vehicle revolutionize mass transit? It incorporates elements of Formula 1, naval and tank technology, but the most important thing about this bus is the rapid charger on its roof, which means it can run 24 hours a day, seven days a week!
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Proterra Ecoliner Electric Bus - Jay Leno's Garage
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I was expecting this to be boring buts its actually pretty interesting.
Keep your expectations low, that way you'll never be disappointed.
Very nice bus. I hope this technology becomes available and popular in all 50 states.
Or miniaturized and put in cars.
Samuel Rosenberg obviously a car would have better mileage than a bus tho
Samuel Rosenberg With roughly 80% charge in 10 minutes and no diesel fumes I'd say it's pretty remarkable since every driver needs a bathroom break at some point anyway. If they can make that break the charging station I wouldn't be whining about this busses deficiencies.
Samuel Rosenberg all city buses have bus stops where they stop for 10 minutes or so.
If you were a bus driver, though, you would indeed be keen on having a bus that only had to carry enough battery weight to make it through an 18 mile route and then could recharge for another run in only 10 minutes, (the normal wait time between runs). If you can get your recharge time down to less than or equal to your wait time, then it would be silly to carry excess battery weight beyond what is needed for a single run.
The bus operator is overqualified for his job. If I ever take the bus and he's driving, I could talk to him all day.
Leno is truly the most amazing talkshow host letting this man show every detail and cool fact about the bus
He isn't a bus operator, I know him.
Knowledgeable...
Lmao yea….and now they filed for bankruptcy….because buses caught fire, had batteries freeze, or couldn’t get up hills. Who knew? Weird…..
The engine area looks like a top of the line PC Build
Professor Genki top right corner it running a Nvidia GeForce Titan
Well to be fair, it's hard to get the FUN factor from an electric car. Like Jay said, "recreational". As a motorhead, I LOVE cars! I love the noise, I love mechanical parts, and I love doing the maintenance on my own car. But.. as a daily, I would definitely prefer an electric car. I would love to be more efficient, eco-friendly, and save money by eliminating my fuel cost for a vehicle that is meant to take me to and from work every day. But as a fun, recreational toy, I would like to keep around gasoline/diesel vehicles.
A PC is just a car without wheels
Missing the RGB
I'm relieved he didn;t crash. He's been driving for a while before asking where the turn signals were and the camera guy was blocking the mirror. Very impressive
Not only did that guy out talk Jay, you can tell he's very passionate about his coach. What an interesting vehicle.
The only downside to this bus is that awkward silences are no longer drowned out by engine noise.
Well it doesn't really matter since everyone seems busy listening to music on their phones
Well you can pass some gas for increased awkwardness.
Are you trying to create emissions from Proterra's buses?
This guy busses.
I can confirm that electric busses are awkwardly quiet.
Your missing the best part of every video, "Will it do a burnout?"
the best part about this bus people can never hear it coming until it passes them
That's the worst part about it. I drove buses in college and I almost hit kids that couldn't hear the bus and would step out in front of it. I fear this would be even worse.
@@vampov There are electric school buses in the Sacramento area that have an alarm they play when they are going under 10mph, so that's a possible alternative.
10 Min to charge a battery? Impressive!
Yup, that's why they're using that thick top charger. It charges at 350kW, 3x faster than Tesla's Superchargers. If you were to attach that to a Tesla it'd also in theory charge in 10 minutes. However, a bus gets 5x worse efficiency per mile, so the 10 minute battery goes 50 miles(80kWh) for longer distances you have bigger batteries that take longer to charge(250 miles, 440kWh, 260kW charge rate; charges in 2-3 hours).
For an 18 mile loop.
@@CST1992 Tesla Superchargers can charge at a speed of 250kW, so it's technically only 1.4 times the speed of Superchargers
The person being interviewed is absolutely adorable with his round belly and cheerfulness! 4:04 He reminds me of my grandpa. That made my day :)
Jay Leno, this stuff is better than your show ever was. I love it.
R.I.P. charging cable when they just drove off with it plugged in.
will there not be a automatic stop if it get loaded
They need to make them like gas pumps, at the start of the hose there's a magnet holding the lines together to prevent accidents
Every EV I've heard of will refuse to move if its charging port is plugged in. And flash a "uh, Dummy..." warning to the driver that tries.
No, only women in Russia do that, and they have only gas fillers;)
As if UA-cam isn't full of videos of people driving off with the fuel hose still inside. Except, with electricity, you destroy the cable, not spray gas everywhere. That all goes without the fact that EVs don't move if they're plugged in, so kind of fool proof!
Pretty cool bus... The whole time he was driving that bus I kept thinking to myself, I wonder if he has a CDL...
Clint Osowski i doubt it... but it’s jay Leno so i suppose if he got pulled over he would just take a picture with the cop and get out of a ticket.
I expect, he was driving under Supervision, but he might have his CDL.
I hope he stopped for the railroad crossing. I saw the sign painted on the road but the video didn't show the actual crossing.
With all the crazy vehicles he has I wouldn't be surprised if he does so he can drive the semi he probably has hidden
If you don’t think jay has every license and endorsement you must be crazy! This is the mans life.
This is so much fun to watch in 2022. My entire city has now gone electric with busses. It's so much less noise and pollution!
In 2023 they will go bankrupt.
😂
This is the way to go Jay, thanks for showing us what hope there is
Far greater merit than an electric car....we should be starting in mass transit FIRST - including taxis and vans. They make up most vehicle miles in every city in the world and duty cycle is a great match - PM 10,9,8,7,6 and the rest are 100% removed. Yes the electricty is carbon intense but that will be managed by renewables and sequestartion...Wireless Electic Buses - WEB - Wowzer!
Right, mass transit is the logical choice for proving the technology. We really don't need a bunch of cars running around and then find that there is a problem with the tech, cost, or reliability in a few years and then we have electric car junk yards all over!
The problem is public transit can't get absolutely everywhere in a large city in a timely manner. There are many cities where public transit avoids vast areas of a city because the economics are not there. This is why cars will be with us if we want to get to that good job. There needs to be a fundamental change of a cities layout for transit to be everywhere and efficient.
Another problem with mass transit is the time. During off-peak traffic, I can get to the airport from home in about 25 minutes. Mass transit would take me 1 hour and that's after I get to the terminal which is about 4 miles from home. So add on at least another 15-30 minutes if the bus is running, otherwise call Uber. 20 minute drive into work becomes 1.5 hours by bus (and requires 3 bus changes). And then here (Portland, Oregon) last week a 2 year old was stuck by a syringe while sitting on the light rail. Last year 2 people were stabbed to death by a crazy guy. I rarely take the light rail, but once I witnessed a fight break out. Twice the train broke down although only for about 10 and 20 minutes. I've probably only ridden it 15 times in my life. Better solution is for everyone to have an electric self-driving pod.
@@jmpgfoto1 If you recall what happened in Katrina, we each need our own wheels; I just went shopping yesterday, by bus, and could really use a car.
13:03
I always wondered how big is the crew when filming these ... now i know
This is really interesting. Jay always has some excellent, informative, and interesting subjects in his garage. I find this especially interesting since we now have the (small) BYD bus assembly plant here in Lancaster, CA. The city is showing off their bus that is supposed to be in service later this summer but it isn't even close in technology (or common sense, in my opinion) to this Foothill Transit bus. The use of composites and existing technology makes the Foothill bus a real world solution and the quick charge feature is really amazing. Now it's proven technology having been in service for more than a year. Plus the ability to operate 24/7 is a tremendous advancement. REALLY GREAT, Thanks Jay!!!
Cored and vacuum infused - like good yachts. Very cool!
I feel like this bus should have solar panels built into the roof. With cars, I can understand that there's not enough surface area for a solar panel to generate significant energy. But a bus will have way more space, so it would have a more significant power output, no? At least to run some low amperage system like the lights inside or something.
I'm sure it would have, but I'm guessing if the goal of this bus was to be relatively cheap, light, very low maintenance and simply being a straight forward 24/7 work horse, today's solar panels quickly make it more expensive and higher maintenance, plus it's completely unnecessary, seeing as they get all the electricity they need and more from the charging station. I suspect you wouldn't get much payoff from a solar panel, neither economically nor emissions wise (which is why there's not more of them around anywhere), so they're probably better off saving that money for something else :)
the chinese byd company already has solar panels in its roof and its way more advanced than this bus check it out its on youtube
thegalaxy
How is it any more advanced than this bus ?
11:06
Wartler you would never get enough solar panels on the roof of it to recharge it from 20% to 95% in 10 minutes like the guy mentioned. You could def install them but panels would not recharge at nearly the same rate as the bus' battery's would be discharging as it drives around to make it worthwhile- maybe in the future though.
Great job Jay Leno!
4:10, the way the guy walks into bus and the look on Leno's face afterwords. Priceless.
wonderful presentation Jay Leno, very informative, lots of new tech introduced, i actually liked it more than most car videos in the past couple years. Here's to new ebuses. Great job.
Nice episode Jay. Thanks.
I'm amazed by this vehicles design. Beautiful and elegant flowing lines from which angle you look at it.
lol - "let's go Norton..." - Honeymooners - surprised no one laughed - this is what makes Jay so funny, he knows his stuff - i bet he would be the best celeb contestant on Jeopardy
one of my favorite episodes jay. i was surprised how interesting it could be
This is awesome! I live in Wenatchee, Washington and I see these electric buses being used by Link Transit all the time! Very interesting how far transportation has come in only a couple decades.
Dear Jay...its 2014 and i request you for an update regarding the electric bus technology now
Kapil Sreedhar 2015 may =D
Kapil Sreedhar www.proterra.com/
+FreakinPeanut thanks for the link =D
+Kapil Sreedhar Perhaps I may be of some assistance... I run my channel out of Pomona (my hometown), and I'm pretty sure I've seen Foothill Transit #F2003 at some point (perhaps more than once). I just found out about this... I'll have to do a video on it next time I see it.
+Network126 thats great....
Jay, can you test flying saucers at Lockheed Skunkworks?
i dont see why not
City of Shenzhen, China recently (Jan 2018) completed conversion to an all-electric bus fleet. They are operating 16,000+ BYD electric buses.
The best thing I have seen all year.
charger headlights with Nissan murano tails I like
I noticed that too
Is it just me or is the headlights off the 2006 Dodge Charger?
13:00 He forgets to take the charger cable off! The charger will be dragged along the street! ..That's why they skipped to a whole different scene, they first cleaned up the mess :D
Richard van Pukkem it probably doesn't let you drive with the cable on.
This was a really wonderful thing to see from a rich car crazy guy. I never thought in a billion years Jay would be interested in such an glamorous ride for the masses. Good stuff.
Man that guy is a good spokesmen for the electric bus companies. There is not much online about these buses like whether they have succeed or not.
This definitely seems more compelling than that BYD eBus that's being trialled everywhere in the world right now. Whoever manufacturers this bus should consider licensing this technology to European, Japanese, and Korean bus manufacturers so this technology can appear in European-standard or Asian-standard buses on this side of the world.
Electric buses are the future! 🚍🔋🔌🔜😆👌
It's always cool to see a man who loves his work.
13:30
"I find all this green technology fascinating for two reasons
A: I find it fascinating"
Thanks for sharing you should do an update because of exponential growth in technology
The irony of having a pedal called 'gas'.
blogobre supposed to be called throttle.
Ha, yeah. I do like it, can't wait till battery packs for cars hit about $1000, then as Jay has said, we'll still have our muscle cars but only drive them on the weekends for fun.
Or accelerator.
Yeah, then you realize petroleum and diesel are liquids and not gasses.
I'm pretty sure the technical name for it is the accelerator pedal
This is absolutely brilliant!!
Bringing the windows back in the back is pretty cool.
Balsa wood. .amazing
In nottingham, in the UK we now have a few electric busses on various routes. But most our single deck deisel busses have always had rear windows tbh.
Because they don't have air con
+dennis trident william Most european buses have the A/C unit on the roof
+dennis trident william i wouldnt know about the electric ones because i havnt been on them yet.
But a lot of our normal busses have it, tho tbh most the time its not needed
+Mada Third no rear windows here in the states.
+Dallin Carpenter in Bristol UK we have hybrids that usually run on just electric around town all the 200 buses now have wifi and leather seats not to mention the buses actually look nice
thank you for videos !
Wow I love watching super car videos all the time but this is the first time I have ever spent watching a video about a bus for almost 20 minutes
I too love the technology of this bus. It's great and gives us all hope for the future, But I was a grad student in Urban Planning decades ago. All my classmates were crazy for buses. Buses make more sense than cars in many ways but only if you ignore the real reasons people prefer cars to buses,
A car is a steel box that offers you transportation but also protection. If you come out of a place in a dark urban neighborhood you want to get into your car, lock the doors and put on your own music. You want to go then exactly where you want to go. You don't want to wait outside in the rain for a bus full of potentially dangerous strangers. If you are a woman with a baby that is even more true.
Buses are a bad alternative.
+Patrick Boyle
The LRT in Calgary is a good example and should be electric, free parking at a station near you, and it hits all major shopping centers.
***** Maybe so for a well organized place such as Calgary. I am probably being influenced by the central cities of older American metropolitan areas. Chicago is the called the 'Second City' of America. But every weekend there are a dozen or so people gunned down on their streets. With that kind of crime flourishing the wise citizen will be wary of taking the bus.
Patrick Boyle
Patrick, I'm now believe all train transportation should me mono rail, even the cost is high, Terrorists and other kooks can easily put something to derail a train in the woods which are in middle of nowhere.
The bus & it ' s heavy running costs are fine in packed cities , where potential customers are at a relatively close together & numerous . But most of North America has a low population density , the car wins for all the wrong reasons . Mr Boyle , think about gun control , the vast majority of your neighbours are reasonable , like yourself , they want to just get on to their day to day ........ & won ' t shot you .
magna59 I can't follow your remarks about gun control.
"tesler"?
That's how people from Boston say it. Maybe in his later years some of his New England accent resurfaces.
Michael Bender still not correct
East coast accent. Boston specifically
AKzebraMiner its a phenomenon called the “intrusive r.” It’s very prevalent in Areas with an accent derived from New England, or England, and southern regions of the United States. It usually occurs on accident, and is usually only noticed on words that end with an “Ah” vowel. So words like “pizza” “Tesla” and “Santa” are accidentally pronounced “pizzer” “tesler” and “santer”. It’s not wrong... it’s just the way it is.
i like how jay says "see you next week", when there is normally a video posted every day.
That is really a cool I've never seen this episode. That is so funny when Jay turned around and had a Bus full of people.
AND WASN'T DRAGGING THE SHOP CHARGER BEHIND HIM.
Wrong about the back window, New Flyer and Nova Bus has been building Low Floor buses with back windows since 1994-95-96 until now...
so did you rip out the power cord that was still plugged in,,,
yes
Great video!
This is actually pretty impressive and important. I skipped the SWAT vehicle video for this. I just found it more intriguing.
Why aren't these things everywhere yet!?
King County Metro has a few. UA-cam user Pnwelevator has a few videos of them.
the initial cost of the project probley
I honestly do not like these. KC Metro's ones die often. They really need a better design also, make it look more like a Gillig
How are they dying?
the transit system that had this bus in the video, foothill transit, will have their fleet 100% electric by 2030. :)
Wow that's very interesting they came up with some good ideas with Electric Technology for Buses Running on Batteries and the Coach Body is Built out of Balsa Wood and Fiberglass combination , which will allow the bus to last longer than some of the older ones but even more impressive is that Jay Leno of the Tonight Show is Driving the Bus....Ha.
+Daniel Siskron I live in Pomona and I'm pretty sure I've seen the exact bus Jay Leno drove... I'll have to do a video on it next time I see it lol.
The bike rack on the front is genius!
Cool looking... very modern and clean energy to boot !!!
we have a couple of these in our city and a few hybrids as well they work good but in the winter these aren't as reliable due to the temp. the can't be left outside either..the hybrids are good once running. but these have a hard time keeping a charge at -30.
It's a drawback of electric power, but buses are generally operating in warmer conditions.
Still, advances in technology can offset these issues.
I live in south Texas, where the temperature rarely gets below 40 degrees Fahrenheit or 4 degrees Celsius.
Anyone see the dodge charger front lights?
Very cool Jay.
An electric bus! What a great idea. I am going to have to give my city council a call. Learn something new every. Visit.Thanks Jay. Dave from Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Congratulations:
This Electric Bus Startup Has Raised $140 Million
Fortune-Jan 3, 2017
Proterra's sales more than doubled in 2016 from the previous year, according to the company. To date, the company has sold more than 300 ...
Steve Bollmeyer wow
Steve Bollmeyer BMW just became a shareholder in this company.
Proterra needs to get into making school busses. Too many school busses are run on dirty diesel.
Talltrees84
dirty diesel? with Biodiesel, smells like I am following a Dunkin' donuts, always get intensely hungry for a snack.
Most of the buses in my district run on propane. I’m pretty sure it’s very widespread.
This is the technology that the world needs!
I like how motivated that guy is despite how many people don't care about the world
Are those Nissan Murano tailights?
+Manuel Hernandez Yep, with Dodge Charger headlights.
Are those headlights from a Dodge Charger?
+volvmerc1999 yeah this was my first thought too :D
+volvmerc1999 nissan murano tail lights maybe? the older ones of course
yeah hahah ,,, and the rear from Nissan Murano ,, lol
but the design is so perfect and simple,, love it
maybe
In San Francisco (and other places) we've had fully electric buses for a long time, using a roof-mounted trolley system to pull electricity off wires strung over the street. And their performance is impressive. From a dead stop, pointing uphill on a steep hill, when the driver hits the accelerator it *will* knock you on your ass if you aren't ready for it, while a diesel ICE huffs and puffs just to get going. This has no trolley system to come unhooked, and 10 min charge time is great.
Seriously impressive !!!
Bus nerd alert, did anyone spot the Leyland Olympian double decker in this video? It's chassis was built right here in Bristol, England.
Our buses in Bristol are far better with wifi and leather seats haha
+Chatta290 trust me, they are NOT leather, I used to work for First Bristol, they are 100% vinyl!
smiffy1071 synthetic leather is still luxurious mercedes use it on the new eclass which costs £38,000
How much does Jay Leno spend on insurance and maintenance for all his vehicles???
it doesn't matter because he's a millionaire
rbat004 I think he self insures and probably just has an umbrella. In CA you can post a bond instead of buying liability insurance.
Wow, that's amazing and love it
Nice job doing this Jay ... you are the future
11 years later :
“Proterra has filed for bankruptcy”
Same headlights as a charger?
They are eerily similar.
11:05 he says "charger on the roof" same headlights confirmed. illuminati confirmed
'06-'10 Charger headlights and Gen1 Murano tails...
Wow, I am impressed!
Very informative bus driver, nice to see someone that enjoys there job.
What's the reasoning behind having the metal bike rack thing in the front of the bus? In EU it would be no bueno because of pedestrian safety.
Well I guess in America they take the position that if you're stupid enough to walk out in front of a bus, tough crap.
TO CARRY BIKE WHILE YOUR ON THE BUS.
since every bus has a fixed route, it would would have been cheaper and more practical to just run 2 wires over and make it a trolley bus. this way there would be no need for 20min charging breaks and the bus can use smaller batteries if it needed to drive to where there are not wires for it
It's not 20 min breaks but 10 min breaks. That was in 2012, so I would think it maybe less then that now, with more miles per charge on the newer designed batteries. They have temporary fixed routes here, because we are constantly growing and changing, with great distances in-between. If you just stick to the trollies, you will never find a better system. Necessity is the mother of invention ya know. You keep improving on it till it is the best it can be. At least that's what we do here in America. If trollies were the best, we wouldn't have changed them.
Applepiebetty
well, actually Ford and other motor companies had bought them up and killed them in order to make people buy cars. seriously, look it up. but yes, trolleys are not perferct, but they are better than diesel buses and would make a great transitional tech
alex smith but why do we need a transitional tech? This bus is here - today - now! The technology is already here. The problem is nobody is taking the plunge and using it.
Will Davis
we could, you are right. i guess trolley buses can be very usefull too because they very cheap and they dont need charging time. in anycase, US needs more public transit
We are on the same page Alex. I live in Wellington, New Zealand, where we have a trolley bus system operating since the 1950s when the trams (street cars) were withdrawn. Now the fools we elect have decided to get rid of trolley buses because they need to run fixed routes. They will be replaced by hybrids which will run a great deal of the time on LPG or diesel due to the hilly terrain. Absolute stupidity in an age when should be extending trolley bus installations like the rest of the world is doing.
Gotta love the oldschool handset, to the left of the drivers seat.
ive seen this bus many times going back and forth and now its on m favorite youtube channel
Wonder why the conventional american buses don't have rear windows? Euro buses (with air con and conventional diesel/hybrid engines) do have rear windows.
I imagine it was a matter of weight transfer. I'm sure they researched it to death. I say put it all under the bus. lol
well that does make sense lol
Most new ones do, but there's usually an engine or part of the exhaust there.
MichaelSE88 Here in Singapore we have a Volvo hybrid bus on trial that has no rear window as well...
is it just me or does this bus look the dodge charger/avenger in the front
***** and nissan taillights
Awesome looking bus.
It's absolutely amazing when you consider the technology now even compared to just 10 years ago, it's really good.
All busses in my city are now electric! Even the deliveries here in the Netherlands are now electric!
@@cg986 Problem with electric is that if the power grid goes down for what ever reason the city will be paralyzed. More R&D needs to go to Hydrogen.
@@twocansams6335 You obviously have done no research into refuelling of hydrogen. It can't be done without power. Next to that, hydrogen needs 4 times more energy put in to create the same amount of range. It can't change, because of the laws of nature. That's why fossil fuel companies are pushing hydrogen. It needs so much power, that we would never be able to generate it with clean energy only. At least with EV's you can deliver back to your house in case of a power outage and in the rare case you that has never happened to me you can hook up a generator to your house and still charge your car ;)... You can even use the car battery as a way to trade energy and actually make money of it when energy is more needed somewhere.
@@cg986 I guess you never lived though a power outage, I lived through the one that took out power in Ontario Canda, New York State as well as a few other states.
Power was gone for months, a few gas stations got generators, buses ran on gas then. 10's of millions of people without power in a blink of the eye, you honestly think you can find a generator to charge your tesla? Generators were bought and given to grocery stores, gas stations and banks. With Hydrogen all you need to do is get a generator to power one station that can fuel 100's if not 1000's of vehicles. And were talking about the replacement of gas, gas will still be around for a very long time until its not, so what do you power your generator with when their is no gas? A Hydrogen generator.
@@twocansams6335 You clearly don't know anything about hydrogen. Go back to school.
That guy was wrong when he said we haven't seen rear windows on a bus in 20 years. Here in Brampton Ontario Canada, the Novabus and New Flyers have rear windows.
+FOURBIGRIMS In a place with really hot weather you will not see a diesel with a rear window since one must have the air-condition and the room for the cooling for the diesel e.g Las Vegas in July 45 degrees Celsius
+FOURBIGRIMS Brampton, Ontario (Canada) is a long way from Ontario, CA. "We" possibly referring to Californians? Did you expect him to check out your buses before he said that?
but you're speaking of canada, not california. lol
Jay love your show!
Amazing, why isnt this more widespread.
2:30 THANK you, Jay, for making fun of the conservative AGW deniers who think they are "original" with their "coal fired power plant" remark & infinitely hypocritical for blaming liberals who are doing the hard of going electric instead of blaming the conservatives who keep forcing coal fired power plants onto us with government welfare for coal.
It is a pity that man's name was not Theodore. Then could have said:
*"BUS-TED!"*
{I'll see myself out now...😊}
Love It!!
thumbs up for giving companies like this some publicity Jay.
Doesn't mention it's Achilles heel. The extremely short battery life when charging like this, the sheer amount of them in this bus and for the sake of the ecomentalists, the environmental damage caused by the manufacture and disposal of them.
And even now in 2016 the battery technology hasn't advanced to make them a viable option, environmentally wise, for public transportation systems. There are mountains of failed batteries costing more to recycle than they are worth.
Exactly. The lithium ion batteries have compromised longevity for being able to charge as and when. Milk floats and forklift trucks of old that used NiCad batteries used to last for ages and the charge capacity remained for a long time provided you used the battery to near depletion and charged fully. The Lithium batteries were developed for mobile phones and laptops, they can't get a 'memory' unlike older tech and are best stored on 50% and charged ideally at over 30%, unfortunately, as anyone with a 2-3 year old phone/laptop knows, they don't last. The same technology is used in all modern electric vehicles, only thousands more cells to dispose of.
John Galt eso Every phone I've owned the batteries would crap out in a year or two at the most if you're lucky. Lg batteries die once they drop below 10% after 500 charges, my samsung tablet that sat depleted for 6 months still holds 10 hour charges though and its over two years old already.
Batteries can be recycled.
cover it with solar panels
why have solar panels on homes and businesses? cynical energy is negligable
if there is a solar powered airplane flying around then its not long before a bus in california will be covered in panels. even if the solar panel charged a separate battery for a/c or some other accessory. technology tends to get lighter over time ;)
Jackie Scholl its not like i recommended a wind mill on the bus, take a technology and remember what it was 10 years ago and try to imagine the future. research solar as of now and tell me that there is no advances from years past.
that thing looks beast with the charger head lights
Love this
Jay seemed really interested when the fat guy was explaining things about the bus. lol
Chris Hollandsworth it's hard to take a guy without teeth too seriously.