Basically its a roof rack solar panel with a battery inside (includes AC outlet), extra fold out panels that cover the length of the car, and a charge cable for the car. They’re about $5000 USD and are shipping the first ones out in Q3 this year.
As someone who lives in an appt and commutes, this would make an electric vehicle much more viable as there is no charging stations in my building or at my work. I saw this and immediately began researching what vehicle models would be coming to Canada in 2028.
I saw some peeps with a solar powered bus, massive awning of solar as well as the whole roof. They’d have a travel day, then have to park up and trickle charge for a few days.
Cool if your lifestyle supports it though. They ran a couple ebikes for the day to day, and used the bus to short hop around the US.
I do think part of the reason this product is coming out this year and not 10 years ago is because we’ve only recently hit the tipping point of panel efficiency where things like this start to become viable.
Panels will not be more efficient than the amount of solar energy per square meter.
Those are different units. Efficient is a measure of how much of the energy in gets converted. Max power is a measure of how much power you can get.