I didn’t put a solar panel on the roof of my car and tried to charge a battery, if that’s what you’re asking, I did the math and also have home solar panels. For field testing you could ask someone who does camping, that is where bringing panels with the vehicle would be specially useful anyway.
PS: Now that I think about it, a lot of the bigger SUVs from China have features specially made for campers and whatnot, like the Xiaomi SkyNomad N90 that comes with an actual tent on the roof that you access from inside the car (pic below because look at it) and some off-roaders that have things like built-in oxygen tanks for high altitudes and freaking propellers for fording rivers. Maybe it could have success in those niches.
If you’ve measured the output of a stationary home solar panel, I guess one that is flat rather than angled to be more like a car roof, then that counts as a measurement. Or maybe the one in your pic has a solar panel angled towards the sun, which is interesting. I’m more interested in measurements than math right now though.
I think smaller EV’s get around 4 miles per KWH. So if you can get 2 KWH/day from solar, that’s good enough for a daily grocery run around here.
Have you done a measurement, or are you guessing?
I didn’t put a solar panel on the roof of my car and tried to charge a battery, if that’s what you’re asking, I did the math and also have home solar panels. For field testing you could ask someone who does camping, that is where bringing panels with the vehicle would be specially useful anyway.
PS: Now that I think about it, a lot of the bigger SUVs from China have features specially made for campers and whatnot, like the Xiaomi SkyNomad N90 that comes with an actual tent on the roof that you access from inside the car (pic below because look at it) and some off-roaders that have things like built-in oxygen tanks for high altitudes and freaking propellers for fording rivers. Maybe it could have success in those niches.
If you’ve measured the output of a stationary home solar panel, I guess one that is flat rather than angled to be more like a car roof, then that counts as a measurement. Or maybe the one in your pic has a solar panel angled towards the sun, which is interesting. I’m more interested in measurements than math right now though.
I think smaller EV’s get around 4 miles per KWH. So if you can get 2 KWH/day from solar, that’s good enough for a daily grocery run around here.