Electric Car With Solar Panels On Roof

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Electric car with solar panels on roof. According to hyundai it can charge up to 60. In addition dutch start up lightyear is working on an electric car that uses solar panels on its bonnet and roof to help charge the vehicle s batteries. Unfortunately it takes over 10 000 square feet of solar panels for a standard charging station that can serve 12 vehicles. It adds silicon solar panels integrated into the roof.

Those batteries are then used to charge individual vehicles. Our sister title auto express visited one electric car owner warren philips of shoreham on sea who uses solar panels to charge his renault zoe. The lightyear one car is expected to cost. Hyundai says their solar panel will provide enough electricity to power 808 miles of driving per year or 2 2 per day if you leave the car out in the sun.

That s not nothing but it s close to. In this example you ll need about twice that to power your electric car a 2 kw 1 896kw to be exact solar array 8 4 kwh per day 4 43 kwh to get this level of solar panel output from your installation you ll need about eight 250w solar panels to generate enough juice to power your electric car every day. Some vehicles do have solar panels already on their roof but they only provide enough electricity to operate some equipment in the vehicle. On a sunny day the panels on his roof can generate upwards of 40kwh of electricity enough to charge the 40kwh battery in his car.

Charging up your electric car isn t completely free though as you have to factor in both the cost of building your new car port or installing the solar panels on your roof then installing the special kit needed to turn your home into a charging point which costs around 1 500.