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Wireless solar charging for electric buses?

That's actually a good-looking (and hopefully effective) design. It's economical in size and again hopefully, in cost. Imagine a fleet of electric buses replacing the gas guzzlers that shuttle people around. We can save massive amounts of oil and we make a huge impact on the environment.

Juan Miguel Ruiz
http://www.GreenJoyment.com

The strength of the charging signal required for an overhead charger in this setup will be strong enough and close enough to interfere with passengers pacemakers. The shielding required adds too much to the weight of the vehicle.

Ground mounted wireless chargers are actually more dangerous than an electrified third rail.

I see nothing wrong with having a plug of direct connection. Such things would need
to be locked down to prevent vandalism, but so will the inductive systems. The
shelters would need to be attached to the main grid and the solar power collected would be used to offset the power consumed.

As an alternative, you could have a power pack swap of some kind.
The side or bottom of the bus is opened, the pack removed, a fully charged one
inserted, and you are off. Packs would only swap when the one in the charger
has sufficiently more juice than the one on the bus. A well timed system could
easily swap out the packs in well under a minute if not a fraction thereof.

Why not a plug? They could do this same setup with an automated umbilical cord going into a roof top charging port like in flight refueling for planes, but reversed.

Sensors could guide general alignment and a simple funnel like design could slid the plug into place. A modified NATO standard charging adaptor used by the military, or something comparable, would work.

Battery packs make sense because of the extended lack of sunlight issue. They can be swapped out at far fewer intervals than at every stop, probably at the beginning point of a route. A minimum number of places to swap battery packs also translates to a choice of machines or people to do the work rather than being forced to use machines. There can still be solar panels on the shelter roofs, but they will feed power into the municipal grid rather than be an isolated system.