Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | Maxzillian - 3/15/2019 07:34
I did the math on that once and a solar panel that can fit the roof of the vehicle basically added a pissant amount of power to the batter each day.
Keep in mind that many of these vehicles have 80 kWh batteries! A 300 watt panel would need at least 11 days of continuous sunlight to charge that. If you figure you get 5 full hours of sunlight per day (pretty average here in the belt-line of the US) it'd take over 50 days.
We get 300 days of sunshine per year, so a roof panel would get you the equivalent of several full charges per year.
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