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Nissan presents mini electric vehicle with expandable solar roof (www.pv-magazine.com)

submitted 1 week ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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Dubbed Ao-Solar Extender, the roof-mounted vehicle integrated PV (VIPV) concept has a fixed 300 W component and a 200 W component that stows away for driving to generate in the extended position a total of 500 W, according to the company.

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How much power does the A/C use in a car like that? You could probably run the A/C for free when it's sunny.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

When I had a rental Bolt EUV, perhaps a bit larger than this, air conditioning seemed to use about half a kW while sitting at the stop lights, so maybe 500 Wh? So your guess might track, actually.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Probably more than 500W considering you're literally sitting in a greenhouse.

Maybe if you blocked off most of the windoes on the sunny side with reflectors.