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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by philipps on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:59AM (#20960380)
I wish more people would respond to this comment rather than debate the benefits of putting solar on a ferry. Is there data on the avg commute distance in different cities? 50km seems like a significant distance and could cover a large number of commuters.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by legulere on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:31AM (#20961477)
cars are used around 10000 km per year in Germany by what I found online. That’s around 30 km per day.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by criddell on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:48AM (#20963164)
Americans drive around twice that much. The latest number I could find was 13,476 miles per year for the US.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by akerro on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:50AM (#20962666)
I use my car for 6km per day, but I do 700km in a day on motorcycle on a weekend day.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by sleepychu on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:27AM (#20960507)
Anecdotally 140km between Glasgow and Edinburgh (round trip) so it seems like inter-city commuting is probably out.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by kingkongjaffa on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:42AM (#20961173)
Virtually no one in the UK is doing this, this is an absurd answer.

80 miles (128km) a day is a pretty harsh commute I used to do, the vast vast majority are doing significantly less than this.

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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by pjmlp on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:05AM (#20961709)
When I used to regularly visit Bristol, I got to learn quite a few that used to commute to London from Bristol and Bath surrounding areas.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by rsynnott on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:19AM (#20961055)
The vast majority of people don't commute 140km a day.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by chrisseaton on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:31AM (#20960787)
That’s an extremely specific single example. Can we really usefully generalise from it? Maybe some cities are closer than these two?
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by jameshart on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:02AM (#20961684)
Glasgow also has only 1201 annual hours of sunshine, less than 3.5/day. What a strange example to choose...
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by wongarsu on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:02AM (#20961297)
Anecdotally I live 8km from work (same city, Europe), making a 16km/day commute.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by nkozyra on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:25AM (#20961082)
That seems on the high end of a traditional commute; given traffic that takes, what, nearly two hours each way?
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by kingkongjaffa on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:44AM (#20961182)
I used to do 80miles (128km) a day with harsh traffic and that was 1.5 hours each way(40miles). so yes you are right it's much closer to 2hrs than 1hr.
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Re:Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge... by leadingthenet on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:37AM (#20961147)
It's closer to an hour, than it is to two.
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