That much solar panel would charge at ~200 watts max.
The van would likely get use 200 watt-hours per mile.
So, essentially, 1 hour of sun = 1 mile of range.
Assuming you can get only half that for the solar panels that about 2.5m square and solar panels get about 200-300 watts per square m. So we looking at at least 500 watts for a pessimistic estimate and the magic number for watt to daily production is around 4 kwh per watt. So we looking at around 2kwh per day. A tesla s3 gets about 100km from 15kWh a lot of an evs weight is in the batteries so although its a mini van it might not be to far off.
So we looking at 13.3 km per day or 8.3 miles per day (for you yanks).
Thats not an amazing distance but its not nothing. This should be a bit of underestimate as well, but some information is unclear so maybe I’m overestimating but it should be in that ball park.
Yeah, the solar panel is more of a neat looking add-on, but over here in Europe, even two miles will take me to the stores and back twice over. And have enough left over for me to transport things for work between storage and lab with that ample space in back.
And it’d be much nicer than my e-bike in winter.
For a surprising amount of use cases in most non-suburbanized regions, 3 miles a day is all that is needed.
You’re putting too much on the solar. This vehicle will need charging like any other EV, but you’ll also get that little bit a solar each day which will accumulate into a nice little something over the vehicles lifetime.
That little bit of solar energy can sometimes mean that you won’t need to get towed. Sometimes, you might get stranded a mile or two away from home or a charging station. If you can then just leave it for half a day on the road, walk home and back to pick it up again, you’d have saved a 500usd towing fee.
That much solar panel would charge at ~200 watts max.
The van would likely get use 200 watt-hours per mile.
So, essentially, 1 hour of sun = 1 mile of range.
The Van is listed as 3.4 m long and 1.5 m wide
https://newatlas.com/automotive/hwe-puzzle-electric-kei-van/
Assuming you can get only half that for the solar panels that about 2.5m square and solar panels get about 200-300 watts per square m. So we looking at at least 500 watts for a pessimistic estimate and the magic number for watt to daily production is around 4 kwh per watt. So we looking at around 2kwh per day. A tesla s3 gets about 100km from 15kWh a lot of an evs weight is in the batteries so although its a mini van it might not be to far off.
So we looking at 13.3 km per day or 8.3 miles per day (for you yanks).
Thats not an amazing distance but its not nothing. This should be a bit of underestimate as well, but some information is unclear so maybe I’m overestimating but it should be in that ball park.
Yeah, the solar panel is more of a neat looking add-on, but over here in Europe, even two miles will take me to the stores and back twice over. And have enough left over for me to transport things for work between storage and lab with that ample space in back.
And it’d be much nicer than my e-bike in winter.
For a surprising amount of use cases in most non-suburbanized regions, 3 miles a day is all that is needed.
You’re putting too much on the solar. This vehicle will need charging like any other EV, but you’ll also get that little bit a solar each day which will accumulate into a nice little something over the vehicles lifetime.
And it has external AC outlets. So it can run power tools directly or charge their batteries. So it saves gas on equipment, too.
No AC or headlights though.
That little bit of solar energy can sometimes mean that you won’t need to get towed. Sometimes, you might get stranded a mile or two away from home or a charging station. If you can then just leave it for half a day on the road, walk home and back to pick it up again, you’d have saved a 500usd towing fee.
Shit like that does happen at times