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It's impossible to charge electric vehicles on solar panels. You charge at night when the panels don't produce and the panels don't have enough capacity to char
by LunaSea 6y ago
It's impossible to charge electric vehicles on solar panels.
You charge at night when the panels don't produce and the panels don't have enough capacity to charge the vehicle completely.
So you need huge batteries that will be even more expensive.
- xbmcuser 6y agoBattery prices are also falling 18-20% every 2 years a tesla powerwall costs around $7k now $11k with installation. You dont need to top up your electric vehicle 100Kwh every night looking at avg car use most people would need to top up 7-8Kwh only so the battery cost wont be extremely expensive no need to install 100Kwh battries just 12-15Kwh would be enough.
- LunaSea 6y ago7 to 8 Kwh is already more than half the production of an average standalone house. Which means that the rest of the house has to somehow do without half it's production. Also, outside of cost, batteries and solar panels have a huge environment cost during production and are still terribly difficult to recycle. Windmill blades are often buried underground for example.