Dubbed Ao-Solar Extender, the roof-mounted vehicle integrated PV (VIPV) concept has a fixed 300 W component and a 200 W component that stows away for driving to generate in the extended position a total of 500 W, according to the company.
Dubbed Ao-Solar Extender, the roof-mounted vehicle integrated PV (VIPV) concept has a fixed 300 W component and a 200 W component that stows away for driving to generate in the extended position a total of 500 W, according to the company.
500W will give you 1-2 miles of range per hour on a sunny day. If your commute is 5 miles in a sunny area, you won’t need gas.
You’d probably do better with a bicycle though.
How much power does the A/C use in a car like that? You could probably run the A/C for free when it’s sunny.
When I had a rental Bolt EUV, perhaps a bit larger than this, air conditioning seemed to use about half a kW while sitting at the stop lights, so maybe 500 Wh? So your guess might track, actually.
Probably more than 500W considering you’re literally sitting in a greenhouse.
Maybe if you blocked off most of the windoes on the sunny side with reflectors.
Or just walk.