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Re:California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It by refurb on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:03PM (#10001008)
Anyone ever do the math on charging your car using a solar panel? I'm guessing that unless you have a massive solar panel setup, it would be tough to charge an electric car and get more than 50 miles out of it.
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Re:California Has a Plan to End the Auto Industry as We Know It by owen_griffiths on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @01:04AM (#10001766)
Nissan leaf has 24 KWhr pack, so a 5 KW solar system getting 5 hours of sun could charge it.

However, the cost of having 2 full batteries (ie panel - powerwall - car battery) would be massive in today's world, where batteries are already a huge cost.

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