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Old 09-17-2021, 02:59 AM   #7 (permalink)
Isaac Zachary
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Solar/electric.

I don't know the whole list, but Aptera, Lightyear One and Xbus are on there. With a Xbus, one could disappear up some fire road.
When we had the Leaf it did occur to me that solar power could work for an EV for portable charging, at least in a sunny state like Colorado during the summer months.

On a lot of trips we'd spend our day hours at level 2 chargers whenever possible. As my car sat there in the sun charging it always seemed like it would be more advantageous at times to have a large, foldable solar array that sits so the car. Given the weight to power rate of PV cells, they do make sense to a degree.

But a plug-in hybrid would make more sense for those times electricity in any shape or form isn't enough.
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