Way more thorough analysis than what information I was able to dig up in a few minutes of reading through their website. Seems my estimate of solar cost was right in the ballpark.
Now that I google it, seems the average national average electricity price increased from 14 cents to 18 cents in 1 year. Fantastic, a 20% increase in cost in just a year
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Originally Posted by Snax
Clearly the solar will save it over the long run with those numbers.
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That wasn't the takeaway at all. If you pay twice the national average for electricity and are a dummy that charges during peak times, and somehow manage to drive exactly the distance replenished by leaving your car baking in the sun every day, and you happen to live next door to Mexico... your ROI is 4 years.
In practice, how many folks will pay attention enough to ensure they leave their car discharged enough to accept whatever the sun will deliver for the day, but then charge from the wall whenever the battery becomes too depleted?
It's a nice science experiment, and the 3 people that actually use the car as it's advertised will love camping by themselves with it.