solar powered electric vehicle.

wa8yxm wrote:
Interesting concept.
Power per area.. I'm told that at My Latitude (Think Flint MI) 5 Acres = 1 Megawatt.

I do have a queston: When they rate Solar Panels in Watts. is that "Instant peak sun production" or "Watt hours per day"? (I think insta-peak)

It's an instantaneous output under standard conditions.

To get to watt hours, you have to find the "sun hours" for the location. For example Flint Mi in June is around 6.4.

So if you have a 100w panel, it should generate around 640w-hr.

Of course, in December, the sun is low on the horizon and it tends to be overcast, so it's only 1.35 sun hours, so 135 w-hr. Of course, most people aren't camping in flint in the winter time.

With the extended wing system taking up the entire roof plus two wings of similar size, they claim 6000w of solar panels. So assuming a fairly typical 4 sun hours, that's around 24 kwh of power per day. I think they are exaggerating the per day miles (probably by assuming very low speeds. Realistically, that's probably good for 25-30miles per day but more importantly, it's probably good to cover all the house electrical loads including air/con.

You will still likely need to stop at charging stations regularly if you want to cover significant distances and it's probably crazy expensive compared to a typical camper van.