The math is biased towards when you are using the vehicle. The solar panels also work when you aren't using the vehicle. They work from when the sun comes up until it goes down. And actually most people don't actually use their cars most of the time. It's just sitting there parked doing nothing well over 90 percent of the time. And especially hybrids have tiny batteries to begin with. Instead of charging those burning petrol, you could be partially charging those with solar.

If you get 400W watt performance for a few hours per day, that's maybe a couple of kwh per day. 2 would be alright. 4 would be amazing. 6 probably not that likely unless you live in a very sunny place. Most decent EVs do at least 3 miles per kwh. So, you get maybe 6-12 "free" miles per day. Maybe more with an efficient one. Up to 20 miles even.

Most commute round trips aren't that long. You are might need more power than that. But not a lot. You could be cutting how often you charge by some meaningful percentage. It's not going to be that useful on a long journey. But most people don't do those all the time but they drive small distances on a daily basis. Imagine you drive to work, and back maybe covering 20 miles. You go to sleep, and the car is back at 100% charge. Because you only used a few kwh driving there and back and the car had plenty of time parked to collect those back because the weather is nice. Or maybe it got to 95%. The difference is meaningless because you only use a few percent on a given day. Basically you'd be charging a bit less often and stretch existing charges a bit longer.

If you have a 60kwh battery and you get 2kwh per day from the sun, that's 1 full charge per month. Most people would charge maybe 2-4 times per month. So that's a meaningful amount. Cutting them amount of power that you have to pay for by 25 or more percent can be interesting. I think for most the savings aren't going to be dramatic. But it's nice that the car just sits there slowly topping its battery up without you having to worry about it. That's convenient.

When I'm not using my vehicle, it's in my garage.