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Re:U.S. Postal Service starts nationwide electric vehicle fl... by Retric on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:46AM (#34994631)
These are ford E-transit vans with something like 10-12 m2 of roof space and 116 miles of range on a 68kWh battery pack at highway speeds. https://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/e-transit/

Assuming they are going to use roughly half that range or 34kWh per day a solar roof getting roughly 1/2 of an optimal 8 hours * 0.22kW/m^2 * ~11m2 ~= 9kWh per day, isn’t nothing but hardly enough on it’s own.

Where solar roofs might be beneficial is simply reducing the number of charge/discharge cycles on the battery. A hypothetical 25-50 fewer full charge discharge cycles per year could be a full battery replacement they avoid.

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