Tom Horne wrote:

The moment that they hooked it up to a pool pump and the requisite
electrical branch circuit to power it the bus stopped being a motor
vehicle. Local code officials can regulate vehicles in terms of were
they may be stored or parked. The article indicated that the city of
Gainsville does not permit vehicles of that size to be stored in the
neighborhood. If they can build the whole assembly onto the buss
chassis including the power supply then the city can only force them
to move it every seventy two hours.

I guess "hooked it up to ... the requisite electrical branch circuit"
completely prohibits electric cars.