Nice breakthrough: Ugandan engineer builds Africa first solar powered bus

 Junior Africa, a peasant boy in Uganda has been through hard times to become an electrical engineer, a program he persued at Uganda’s top university, Makerere University. He majored in  clean energy for automotives, as ambitious as he is, he is finally putting touches to an allegedly Africa’s first solar-powered bus.

By his specialty in electrical engineering, he has been at the center of creating this bus
“Kayoola”,  is the name of the bus and is  owned by Kiira Motors Corporation , a state owned company created to start motor vehicle manufacturing in the east African country.

The snow white colored bus is a 37-seater with  solar panels fixed on its roof.

The bus, which is still a prototype, can be charged using solar energy or plugged into power.

  Source:dailyguideafrica.com