The greenest way to charge cars is with solar power.
The sun shines during the daytime.
Each car will hopefully be parked where its owner has a job and works.
Each workplace will typically already have parking space associated with it. Commercial building operators will arrange for charging facilities, often as contracted with employers.
When it's not raining, or just overcast, or snowing...which is a good half of the year....
“The greenest way to charge cars is with solar power.”
How many square feet of solar panel would you need to charge a car in 8 hours?
Another thing. The article said a typical EV would need three new batteries in its average 12-year lifetime. I saw that Tesla has or will have a 500,000 mile battery. That sounds pretty good.
Unless you park your car for a week or two, your car doesn’t have enough surface area to charge via solar power.
” 50-watt chargers “
LOL!
New Samsung phone is 45 watt chargingW
Yep, no more six story parking garages under the building where you work.
We'll have six square blocks of solar panels over concrete parking spaces, no trees allowed, where you can get a 20% charge from all day under a bright clear summer sun.
The other three quarters of the year, not so much.
Well
2000 square feet of solar panels will generate the equivalent energy of 12 gallons of gasoline per day in good weather.
Where are you going to put all those panels?
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