Even more bizarre, Tesla’s charging stations are solar powered.
You will be able to drive free forever on pure sunlight. I think its pretty hard to beat that.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-25/tesla-fires-up-solar-powered-charging-stations
What could possibly go wrong?
“Even more bizarre, Teslas charging stations are solar powered.”
...so they claim. If you do the math on those, you’d see that they need a solar farm to get 85 kW output on a reasonably continuous bases (i.e., only averaging one car at a time), and a HUGE battery for reduced (or no) sunlight conditions. I bet if you look around a 100’ perimeter, you’ll see some pretty fat power lines running from pole to underground - if you know what I mean.
In other words, the panels may do some stuff, but the real charging power is from the grid.
Doncha just love it...?