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#2I keenly await the Thunderf00t debunking video. There is no way a roof solar panel would enable you to "drive for months".
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#3I keenly await the Thunderf00t debunking video. There is no way a roof solar panel would enable you to "drive for months".
xkcd has a quick heuristic of why this is probably a bad idea: https://xkcd.com/1924/
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#4Has no one done the math on this? Isn't it clearly a horrible idea, based on how much energy is available from the sun over a few square meters if car, versus the amount of energy cars use?
I guess if you live in the desert, and every week you park your car for 6 days and drive 1 day.
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#5website doesn't work on Firefox
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#6website doesn't work on Firefox
or safari.
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#7Has no one done the math on this? Isn't it clearly a horrible idea, based on how much energy is available from the sun over a few square meters if car, versus the amount of energy cars use? I guess if you live in the desert, and every week you park your car for 6 days and drive 1 day.
It's for sure a Nikola Motors situation.
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#8So it looks like the site pushes solar as a huge benefit but, if you look closer, they are actually being clear its not "unlimited range because sun", its just a boost on top of the plug in charging.
Specs say "up to 70km" of additional solar range per day; which I'm assuming is perfect alignment of the sun with the panels for the whole day. So realistically it'd be 10km (or 3%ish of the total plugin range) if its a cloudless day and you park in full sun (this is a wild guess but seems realistic).
If you ask me, its not a huge boost, but its more than I would have expected.
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#9Has no one done the math on this? Isn't it clearly a horrible idea, based on how much energy is available from the sun over a few square meters if car, versus the amount of energy cars use? I guess if you live in the desert, and every week you park your car for 6 days and drive 1 day.
We have a roof top solar array that does peak 3500 Watts. Its not unsubstantial. But with the electric car (say about 4 miles/kwh) , we estimated about 12 miles of charge per day.
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