Ideally, rezoning and infrastructure changes would reduce the need for school buses. We don’t have the time though, so this is a win. Hopefully production can ramp up and governments can create incentives for schools to buy these instead of dead dino powered buses.
I wouldn’t say barely. It depends on the rating of the panels and the amount of weight they have. Also if we are just using them to offset energy I don’t see why it would be an issue if you’re accounting for the additional weight and resources used by adding them to this electrical system. If you could offset the loss of operating something small on the vehicle with that small amount of production it would seem worth it as long as it doesn’t increase costs or otherwise put strain on the vehicle’s travel range.