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A comment on Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles. Parent comment

Re:Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion ... by IAmBroom on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:47PM (#44564484)
Not if it won't recover it's own costs.
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Re:Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion ... by dzhiurgis on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:06PM (#44564653)
Cost is convenience.

Manufacturing cost is like $40 cells, $20 electronics and $200 in glass fusion, mounting, etc.

My car eats 200W just being online so it would be useless to charge from solar.

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Re:Impacts of Adding PV Solar System to Internal Combustion ... by cma on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:54PM (#44564536)
It may still lose on this, but you would also want to include the externality costs that the consumer doesn't themselves bear for whether it is worth it overall.
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