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If you could figure out how to do a flexible PV shell then doing an electric car would be EXTREMELY feasible for almost all people. The main problem I find with EVs, for me anyway, is that I have no place to plug them in as I live in an apartment complex where I park in a parking lot...not very near my apartment, at least not within extension cord range. A PV shell would allow it to charge regardless and I think if you made the ENTIRE body out of PV cells, then it would probably charge up rather quickly, at least in PV output terms. Can anyone chime in about this? How efficient would an entire body PV cell be, like making every panel a cell? I would probably make mine a small 1.0L turbo diesel with the electric assist for < 35mph driving and have all the recharging being done by the PV cells so that no efficiency is removed from the wheels or motor.
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