This build is the exception – as far as budget goes, at least. It's a school bus conversion where they went all out and spared no expense, while also presumably breaking a few Internet records ...

The requirements of a school bus can be easily served with battery packs no longer optimal for private car use, and conversion kits could be pretty readily created for the most common bus types.

They bought a decommissioned school bus for CAD $10,000 (US$7,190) and spent a further CAD$35,000-$40,000 (approx. US$25,200-28,800) on the conversion. They did most of the work themselves (except ...