• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Cars are an inconvenient and silly location to place solar panels. This concept is just adding engineering complexity that need not be.

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      1 year ago

      Solar modules are cheap, why not integrate them into the car? I’d love to get an extra 6 miles of range on my leaf per day just for being in the sun.

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        1 year ago

        sigh…

        No, it doesn’t. Just because something ‘appears’ to make sense to laymen, doesn’t mean it continues to make sense when you follow through with an investigation.

        It doesn’t make sense. If your goal is to make a crappier version of both a solar panel and a car, sure. But the amount of power you are going to get from the tiny amount of panels you can put into a car versus the massive power consumption they require is negligible. All your assumption shows is that you understand neither solar panels, nor cars.