Bus shelters are already useful because they keep people safe against rain or wind, but the guys at Fuel Miami, LLC decided, there’s room for improvement. So they did! The first 600 solar bus shelters will be delivered in Miami and will allow the company to show their clients’ ads without the need of being connected to the grid.

Antique bus stop shelter in Preston, UK

Saving about 2 tones a day of CO2, this may not be the big step in fighting global warming we’ve all been expecting, but we all know it takes babies steps to grow big. What can these solar bus shelters change? They could start with the advertisers to making them more eco-friendly or eco-conscious.

Don’t think the cost is a problem, but I’m more interested in knowing if the vandals would see it as a magnet or not. What happens when those photovoltaic cells broke, who’s going to pay for the repairs? Is that sustainable and at the same time, profitable?

via Ecolocalizer (Image courtesy of Tony Worrall)

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