>> Perhaps I can add solar panels on a rack over the pickup... > Adjust your expectations a bit there… It won’t move the needle.
True, ... while driving... I calculated for my Prius with 200W solar panels was picking up 1 MPG out of 60 MPG when driving down the highway at 55 MPH. Yes, practically nothing... BUT, a typical vehicle is only in use about 4% of the time and spends 96% of the time parked. So calculating the value of the solar panel while parked 8 hours at work in the sun would pick up 8 miles range for the return home for free. And this was a necessity because the Govt still will not let me pay the 50 cents a day to plug in. A pickup bed cover could pickup 4 times this power than my Prius Roof could. But again, I tell everyone that I wouild never do it again for 3 reasons. 1) small panels cost TEN times per watt compared to Big panels 2) I have a HUNDRED TIMES more area on my house than the car 3) The House is always in the sun (not parked in the shade) But then, despite my above recomendation, I do it for every EV I build. Simply because of the value of promoting EV's and Solar and the ability to pick up a little bit of range (about 1 mile per hour in the sun) when I am off somewhere and cannot plug in. AND putting them on the flat bed-cover of a pickup can be done at only 10% the cost of any other car...! Bob, Wb4APR > > -Bill > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 801 bytes > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160118/4e3f2718/attachment.pgp > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160118/5e1db83e/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
