To make solar panels work on an EV they must be specially encapsulated Sunpower
cells. No panels. The area should be 5-6 Meter squared. Should yield 1.5 to
1.8kw. This should charge most EVs at level 1. With a custom controller you
could directly connect to the HV battery but that would take some doing. And as
always with porky EV's we make and own like a Tesla or Nissan Leaf it is better
to to put the PV on the roof of your house but if your car was under 1000
pounds that would be a different story. A custom vehicle like the Stella solar
cars built by the engineering students of Eindhoven you could have a 1,200 mile
range car...The team cost is estimated at 330,000 euros. That said if you build
a tube frame and scrimp on parts you could probably get a couple of hundred
miles range and charge in 10 hours of sunlight(15kwh battery pack). It wouldn't
be pretty but would function better than most EV's That's just my take. Most
people here say it can't be done....but the students of Eind
hoven did it...water it down and maybe you'll have a chance.
https://solarteameindhoven.nl/ look at what the winners of the World Solar
Challenge did and do what you can to copy. Lawrence Rhodes seeing is believing.
Crossing Australia in a few days averaging 43mph....it can be done so to wrap
up the best you can hope for is level 1 charging with extensive customization
of your EV. 19 hours of sun to charge the original Leaf. Numbers don't lie.
_______________________________________________
Address messages to [email protected]
No other addresses in TO and CC fields
UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub
ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/
LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
