Basically its a roof rack solar panel with a battery inside (includes AC outlet), extra fold out panels that cover the length of the car, and a charge cable for the car. They’re about $5000 USD and are shipping the first ones out in Q3 this year.
As someone who lives in an appt and commutes, this would make an electric vehicle much more viable as there is no charging stations in my building or at my work. I saw this and immediately began researching what vehicle models would be coming to Canada in 2028.
1100W is a charge rate of 1.1kWh per hour.
So a typical car with 70kWh battery, will take about 70-80 hours to charge from 0 to 100%.
If you’re camping, that can be plenty. You won’t run down to zero getting to the camp site. And you don’t need to be at 100% to leave. It’ll give you ~10kWh a day. You’ll be able to charge for several days. When you’re ready to leave you’ll have plenty to get to a real charger.
That 1100w is probably the nominal output of the system when the panels are facing the sun. With em draped over the car its gonna be a fair bit less.
70-80 hrs assuming the earth doesn’t revolve. Weeks.
Yah I assumed they wouldn’t be consecutive. We are talking about solar power on Earth.