Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: >> Cars can carry 1,500 watts of solar using Sunpower cells. That means >> every spot. Hood, top and trunk...
Alan Arrison via EV wrote:
Where are you getting your cells, from NASA? You couldn't get 1500 watts even if you covered the sides and all the windows too.
Sunpower Maxeon3 panels are 66" x 41", and claim 400w under standard conditions (22% efficiency). Four of them would be 1600w (best case), and measure 5.5 feet wide and 13.7 feet long; that's about the size of a normal car.
However, a normal car's hood+roof+trunk area isn't that big. You'd you'd have to put them on a van to have a big enough roof.
And, you won't get that peak output unless the car is tilted to exactly the right angle.
So it's theoretically possible. But in reality, you'd get maybe half that amount of power as your daily peak. :-)
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