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Old 03-18-2021, 11:12 AM   #35 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jakobnev View Post
The discussion keeps sliding towards just plugging in instead, but as specified in post #1, and reiterated more and more obviously in post #9 and #16, the suggestion was for cars that cannot be plugged in. This is the sort of car a person who has nowhere to plug-in would get.
It keeps sliding that way because the only scenario solar on a car makes sense is for those who don't have reasonable access to a petrol station or mains electricity, but have a ton of cash to blow on a solar powered car. That describes about 0.0001% of people. The handful of people that need that capability are free to engineer it themselves, or pay Lightyear One a bazillion dollars for a (hopefully) working example.
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