Lawrence, For practicalities sake, I think 77ft^2 (7m^2) is a hard sell for getting much travel done. Just roughing it out, (and a person can take some exception with any of these) a meter squared is good for maybe 1000W of incoming sun. For maybe 8 hours a sunny day and less over a year - call it 6 hours (it was far less than that here in NC this summer). You can get more than 20% efficiency from the panels if they are mounted correctly on a roof. On a car I think you need to cut that in half or more.
So that 6kWh (10%) = 600Watt Hours. On a daily basis for a pretty big car compared to what I use with no panels. My daily commute in a pedal assist EV uses about 2kWh. For a round trip of 50 miles. It just would not do for me. My home mounted 5.6KW system is helping much more. Mike On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Not going to happen. The 11 x 7 patch on the roof of the solar vehicle > stays. I'm not accepting any it can't be done statements....next. > Lawrence Rhodes...I don't care how ugly. I'm making a copy of Stella. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150212/09874b6c/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150212/ac0a98c7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
