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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I recently asked and answered "how much extra does it cost the consumer to include solar in the design of the car?"
Aptera prices solar at $700 to add 400 watts. Extrapolating that out, the customer is paying $1,575 for 700 watts ($2.25 per watt). At 10 cents per kWh, that could pay for 15,750 kWh. That is 157,500 miles in the Aptera! Aptera claims the car can gain about 10,000 solar miles per year in San Francisco. At that rate, you'd only need 16 years to break even on that investment.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtem...h=7920bbcff9fb |
If I had $1,575 on hand, do I just save it for fuel or put something on the car that seems cool, especially if it helps compensate for the fuel cost? Maybe solar panels aren't cool. But what else can you do to an Aptera? Aeromod it? Pull the passenger seat out and the interior to lighten it up?
Of course the Aptera is supposed to start out at nearly $30,000, as do a lot of cars. At $4 per gallon, that means buying a new car at that price would equal about 300,000 miles of fuel in my current car. So even if a new car had free fuel, at 10,000 miles per year it would take 30 years to break even. Add in fuel costs and the car would need to get the equivalent of over 80 miles per gallon to break even in 60 years.