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> 8 hours in the Sun is good enough for 2 hours of driving, according to that blurb. That’s like 100 miles of range... Nope! They might want you to think that

by coryrc 4y ago

> 8 hours in the Sun is good enough for 2 hours of driving, according to that blurb. That’s like 100 miles of range... Nope! They might want you to think that with misleading wording, but you'd be lucky for 2 hours of driving at 12 mph. And, again, that's only if the car gets full sun the entire day. At those distances, just get an electric bicycle. EDIT: I don't know what blurb you refer to, but my search engine says https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/ https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/ used to say "on average 112km/week".

Robotbeat 4y ago
It was jvanderbot’s quip: “Yeah, if the panels are so efficient that 8 hrs of sitting can charge 2 hrs of driving, then just put those panels on your roof and wire them into a garage charger.” Generally, it helps to take comments in context… In his hypothetical, that’s clearly more than enough for the average person’s commute. And even if it isn’t quite enough, it could reduce the frequency you need to make trips to a fast charging station (effectively like having a twice as large of a battery), if you cannot charge at home. Charging stations usually are substantially more expensive than residential, maybe 3-4 times the price, and residential is 4 times the price of utility scale solar power (due to buffering and distribution, etc). So there’s a good financial case for it if you can get the cost low, plus you have the added convenience. Sono’s solar wasn’t very good. Lightyear and Aptera’s ability to add up to 40 miles per day is pretty useful… if they can get the cost down.
- sokoloff 4y ago
  > Generally, it helps to take comments in context… That’s true, but when the projection is off by roughly a factor of 10, it’s helpful to bring in the actual data.