I occasionally travel by RV and tow a car behind. If I tow my EV pickup that has solar panels on a rack, it will be at least partially charged by the time I get to wherever I am going. Sometimes it takes three or four days to get from one place to another, like Louisiana to California. We do not drive straight through like we did when younger. I could also connect the solar panels on the RV (640 watts) to the pickup to help charge more than four miles of driving power per hour of sun. I tend to park in the sun so that my coach batteries on the RV can charge. However, I'm still not over the prospect of range!!!
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > >> Perhaps I can add solar panels on a rack over the pickup... > > > Adjust your expectations a bit there… It won’t move the needle. > > True, ... while driving... I calculated for my Prius with 200W solar panels > was picking up 1 MPG out of 60 MPG when driving down the highway at 55 > MPH. Yes, practically nothing... > > BUT, a typical vehicle is only in use about 4% of the time and spends 96% > of the time parked. So calculating the value of the solar panel while > parked 8 hours at work in the sun would pick up 8 miles range for the > return home for free. > > And this was a necessity because the Govt still will not let me pay the 50 > cents a day to plug in. > > A pickup bed cover could pickup 4 times this power than my Prius Roof > could. > > But again, I tell everyone that I wouild never do it again for 3 reasons. > 1) small panels cost TEN times per watt compared to Big panels > 2) I have a HUNDRED TIMES more area on my house than the car > 3) The House is always in the sun (not parked in the shade) > > But then, despite my above recomendation, I do it for every EV I build. > Simply because of the value of promoting EV's and Solar and the ability to > pick up a little bit of range (about 1 mile per hour in the sun) when I am > off somewhere and cannot plug in. > > AND putting them on the flat bed-cover of a pickup can be done at only 10% > the cost of any other car...! > > Bob, Wb4APR > > > > > -Bill > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > > Name: signature.asc > > Type: application/pgp-signature > > Size: 801 bytes > > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > > URL: < > > > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160118/4e3f2718/attachment.pgp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160118/5e1db83e/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160123/d906dc28/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
