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Originally Posted by Isaac Zackary
I've often thought of this for some of my friends and family that live in poorer countries.
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I live in a poorer country.
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An EV would require very little maintenance and the solar would basically be free fuel.
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Free fuel sounds quite attractive, but since many 3rd-world countries have a state-owned oil company it doesn't seem so likely to happen. But anyway, a plug-in hybrid still sounds more likely to succeed than an all-electric vehicle.
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Or make 3 solar panels up there that slide into one big panel that tilts. an 8ft x 20ft panel that slides into a 24ft x 20ft panel could easily make as much as 6kW, plenty of juice on sunny days to get your daily 30 miles. There are kits as low as $250 per kW now available, so about $1,500 plus frames, glass, and charge controllers.
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It would probably be at least the double of that price in Brazil, due to import duties and other taxes
