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Re:Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion ... by jvanderbot on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:37AM (#44559461)
This is a perfect nerd snipe. I can't imagine any car owning (esp ev owning) engineer hasn't or wouldn't eventually think about "why can't I charge my car from my car".
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Re:Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion ... by seltzered_ on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:25AM (#44560670)
You might like the series by youtuber 'Power of Light' where he packs solar panels in his car to charge his car to do a solar cannonball run from New York to California on those solar panels alone: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9nfj0jfPXYBF8FO7sckzvV...

Can't remember how long it took, think a couple weeks at least?

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Re:Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion ... by throwawaymaths on Monday July 14, 2025 @07:40PM (#44566511)
he planned for 30 days and it wound up taking 60. he didn't strategize to minmax it, though? there was a lot of up and down and he stopped mostly at places where there were fun public camping parks. also he went solar -> battery -> ac -> tesla with an alternator to a standard tesla house plug iirc? whoo.

i think there was an interview later where he said, "yeah never doing that again" or something to that effect.

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