rallydefault
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Yea, as it stands solar panels on an electric JL wouldn't contribute much, I guess. The sun would have to be baking on it all day just to give you a bit of juice at the end of a run to get to a station. Or maybe it could give you enough for the jeep to run in some kind of super low-energy mode where it would give you just enough to move the vehicle at a slow speed without any other systems until you got to charger.I'm less bullish on solar as a portable charging solution -- the best panels today produce <2kWh of electricity a day under ideal circumstances (amount of sunlight and ambient temperature). That's... not much; the battery in the 4xe is 17.5kWh. To be meaningful to charge an EV we'd need several orders of magnitude more efficient panels (to say nothing of size and weight). Maybe that's coming?
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