Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research Suggests

Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by epistasis on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @07:44PM (#14449483)

I'd be surprised if you could get a full kWh per day out of solar panels on a car itself; they're at a non-ideal angle, can be parked in half sun half shade, etc.

Most cars get really close to 3.3 mi/kWh. So unless your commute is really short, it's not going to make a huge impact on the number of times you need to plug in.

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by elihu on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @08:52PM (#14449769)

My commute is really short. I don't drive long distances very often, so I think it would make a difference.

Another way to look at it is if I could get one extra kWh per day from solar and can go 3.3 miles per kWh, that's about 100 extra miles of range per month. I typically drive maybe 200 or 300 miles per month, so that's a pretty big reduction in total plug-in power that I would need. (In our Oregon winters it might not help so much, or if I can't reliably find sunny parking spots.)

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by zumu on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:24AM (#14450914)

> I'd be surprised if you could get a full kWh per day out of solar panels on a car itself

Is this assuming the car is parked outside the entire day or just the 8 hour work day?

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