Ben,
Thanks for that very helpful post! I guess this won't be nearly enough to get my car charged though
. How I was thinking of setting up the solar panels was to charge a bank of 12v batteries in parallel (I have about 11 batteries that have been just sitting there waiting for my lazy butt to finish EV2). It looks like I'm going to need a 1500 watt inverter. Then run the battery chargers for my car off the bank. Could I use this setup maybe once a week and let the solar panels charge the bank the rest of the week? Or would the loss through the inverters make me lose most of the energy I get from the panels?