You’ve made an assumption - that the owner of the car has a roof, and can charge the car from there. People who don’t live in a place with off street parking to install a cable need a slightly different solution.
You’ve made an assumption - that the owner of the car has a roof, and can charge the car from there. People who don’t live in a place with off street parking to install a cable need a slightly different solution.
Exactly. Maybe just because I live in a city and almost everyone I know with a car will just find street parking somewhere within walking distance of their apartment.
So .. it would make sense to make a law that requires new parking spaces to have a solar roof which can charge the cars which park there for a few. This would spread rather quickly, I think.
I have solar panels at home and can charge a car .. but I'm mostly parked elsewhere when the sun is shining the most.
Sorry - I wasn’t explicit enough. The vast majority of existing and new developments where I live have on street parking - it’s not allocated, there’s no bays.
There's no reason to assume the charger and the panel have to be colocated if the panel isn't on the car. We have an electricity grid.
So do we, but you can't produce the electricity at one location and consume it in another. In the non-practical sense where our government decided that this is not possible.
Still doesn’t solve the problem for people who use street parking.