> > Personally, I think a mobile array for a vehicle is a fools errand, or > maybe a pass-time for the independently wealthy.
Its sure is. I have solar panels all over the roof of my two priuses. I tell people that it makes 0.1% economic sense to do it. The smaller panels that fit the roof of a car cost TEN times as much per watt as the big ones on my house. And my house has ONE HUNDRED TIMES more surface area. Therefore the value of solar on my car is one thousand times less practical. ALso, WHen I tow even my small 6 foot solar trailer (300 watts) behind my prius, my gas mileage goes down from 55 MPG down to 42 MPG. Meanwhile it is only producing enough power to gain only a single 1 MPG even on the best summer day. So again, the math makes no sense whatsoever. The value to me of my solar panels is to have power in the field while parked at camping and Ham radio events. Makes NO SENSE for traction and propulsion. See my solar car and trailer. http://aprs.org/FD-Prius-Power.html Now putting solar panels on top of an RV that is used 1% of the time and spends the other 99% of the time plugged into one's own home grid-tied, does make sense. Since it is providing full retail electricity 99% of the time while parked. Bob, WB4PRR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20171229/3cfff19b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
