Comment on Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoOn the other hand: most cars are not moved 23h a day. They just stand around.
Ot doesn’t take much shade to have a signifigant reduction in the output of a solar panel.
Unless you are parking in an open field with no trees or tall buildings around your power generation will be signifigantly reduced.
Not that the amount of power generated by a panel the size of a car roof is not all that much, even under ideal conditions.
Doombot1@lemmy.one 2 weeks ago
Exactly. And what’s worth remembering is that solar cars tend to be something like 2X longer then normal cars, and cover the entire surface except for windshield with panels. No rear windshield, either.