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Even converting the whole surface of the car to ideal 100% efficient solar cells world be nowhere close to enough, unfortunately.
by readams 4y ago
Even converting the whole surface of the car to ideal 100% efficient solar cells world be nowhere close to enough, unfortunately.
- asadotzler 4y agoClose enough enough for what? For the typical Californian or New Yorker, who drives about 30 miles a day, on-car solar would cut their charging needs in half. That's "close enough" to useful that dismissing it out of hand seems wrong.
- readams 4y agoYou're assuming something like 24 hours a day of having the car parked in full sunlight, which is not realistic (even ignoring that night exists). For it to make sense, you'd need the solar arrays on the car to provide a reasonable percentage of the energy needed during driving. If this isn't the case, you're way better off putting the solar panels somewhere other than the car (where they can work much better), and charging the car when it's not driving.