@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 8 months agoAptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicleelectrek.coexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up122
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•8 months agoSolar panels are also added weight, which reduces range. Any way you look at it, it makes more sense to have the solar panels at a base location you go back to. I guess an RV, or a camp trailer, makes sense to have panels on it, but that’s about it
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish0•8 months agoThere’s also things like Sentinel mode on Teslas that use power. My main gripe is people think a solar car will never need to be charged, or only on trips, and that’s just not the case.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoAptera claims to be able to get 40 miles a day via solar. Most people drive less than that per day.
Solar panels are also added weight, which reduces range. Any way you look at it, it makes more sense to have the solar panels at a base location you go back to.
I guess an RV, or a camp trailer, makes sense to have panels on it, but that’s about it
There’s also things like Sentinel mode on Teslas that use power.
My main gripe is people think a solar car will never need to be charged, or only on trips, and that’s just not the case.
Aptera claims to be able to get 40 miles a day via solar. Most people drive less than that per day.