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I was thinking about this the other day, in relation to keeping your car charged and warm, as the batteries are under more strain in cold weather and mirrors with trackers are cheap and mounting PV on something like a flat roof is not a good use as they don't get full sun and in the winter it's even less so, but if you reflected the light to the PV and used that waste heat that is created to keep the engine of the car warm on a gas car, or the cabin of the car on an EV then it turns in to a win win with solar charging and solar heating of your vehicle, in the summer the light is more intense so that extra power could be used to run a fan to cool the car.
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