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Old 09-02-2017, 07:23 PM   #12 (permalink)
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It is a German car.
At Northern European latitudes, mornings and evenings are long and the sun is only above 45 degrees for a few hours in the late spring and early summer.
Even in Germany a flat orientation is more efficient than a vertical one, but the difference is not as large as it would be closer to the equator.
The space is available, so if the weight is low - why not? It could easily add a few miles of range.
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