Dutch inventor debuts electric, extreme-speed 'SuperBus'

An inventor in the Netherlands has developed an electric "super bus" that can carry 23 passengers and reaches top speeds of 250 km/h. The vehicle is the creation of Wubbo Ockels, the Netherlands' first astronaut and currently a professor of aerospace sustainable engineering and technology, as reported by the BBC. The inventor's aim is for the bus -- which cost 13m euros to develop -- to become a new form of public transportation. Ockels will reportedly display the bus at an upcoming trade fair in Dubai.