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Its 4-8% increased range, if driving continuously, but who does that? I would guess most people (Europeans at least) travel less than 50 miles a day, that pote
by benj111 7y ago
Its 4-8% increased range, if driving continuously, but who does that?
I would guess most people (Europeans at least) travel less than 50 miles a day, that potentially means you never need to plug your car in.
But as you say this is ideal conditions, and isnt likely to reliably work out that way, so you're still going to have to plan to plug your car in, so agreed, not worth the expense.
- walrus01 7y agoAnd it's 4-8% increased range assuming that for 100% of your trip, all of the PV cells are exposed to direct sunlight. No clouds, no weather, and that all of the cells are somehow magically getting the best possible angle of sunlight. Go watch a clamp ammeter on the output side of a 12 x 360W panel off grid PV array and tell me what the wattage is when a few clouds pass over. The cumulative kWH per month figure is what you should care about - but for that particular 4 hour period of the cloudy day, you'll be lucky to see 400W total from all of the panels together.
- pjc50 7y agoExactly, it's not very even. I have some stats from my 3.85kW grid connected array, taken from the flashing light on the meter: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html (click a day bar to see a drilldown)