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Solar rooftops on cars don't provide enough juice for it to amount to much. Let's say for the sake of argument you could fit a square meter of a car's roof as
by Beltiras 9y ago
Solar rooftops on cars don't provide enough juice for it to amount to much. Let's say for the sake of argument you could fit a square meter of a car's roof as a 20% efficient solar panel (a ludicrously high efficiency). Solar irradience is roughly 1 kW per square meter giving you roughly 200W. That will provide roughly 1.6 kWhr of energy. This is enough to drive roughly 8 miles on an average EV (20 kWhr/100 miles). That's about half the average commute one-way. Not nothing, but still invokes the question if it's worth the effort.
- petre 9y agoI am aware of this. This is why you need more rooftops than the parking lot's and your home's to produce electricity and feed it into the grid. Parkings could just buy that electricity, meter it and sell it to you along with the parking fee.