Not A shadow; Reflection of the trees behindEVDRIVER wrote:That's a big shadow:)

About 26 KwH on a good day.
Not A shadow; Reflection of the trees behindEVDRIVER wrote:That's a big shadow:)
JohnBike wrote:We are so far behind some countries. We spent two weeks in Italy in 2013 (avatar is from Florence). Drove over 850 miles. About half the driving was on the Autostrada, where all of the rest stops had numerous shaded parking spots. No waste of roof space there - the shades are solar panels. Not all of the spaces had charging ports, but most of the Autostrada rest stops we encountered were listed as self-sustaining.
One of my first projects at our new home (moving in July) will be to convince the community to let us put panels over the garage.
KillaWhat wrote:This is what I built.
If you just eliminated the shed.... you would have a carport.
4000 watts, I charge at 3.3 when I use it.
Works great, plus grid tied.
Did it all myself.
Pretty easy.
Sweet! More than I had in mind, but for sure that would be awesome!JimSouCal wrote:Very nice...
KillaWhat wrote:This is what I built.
If you just eliminated the shed.... you would have a carport.
4000 watts, I charge at 3.3 when I use it.
Works great, plus grid tied.
Did it all myself.
Pretty easy.
No, stupid simple is not possible.Mauileaves wrote:Think stupid simple- or is this impossible?
Agreed. Also consider if you do a direct to vehicle without grid or battery then your payback on the panels is likely to be even longer; effectively increasing the cost/kWh actually delivered to the car. I don't know your parking habits, but do you think the car will be in that carport more than 1/2 the sunny time even? Rest of the time is wasted potential....drees wrote:No, stupid simple is not possible.Mauileaves wrote:Think stupid simple- or is this impossible?
I'm not aware of any commercial product that does what you envision.
Even if you were able to use DC straight from the panels to the car, you'd still need a sophisticated CHAdeMO charger that knows exactly how much solar power is available. And that charger would need a DC-DC inverter to boost/buck the solar panel voltage to the appropriate voltage for charging the car.
If you want stupid simple - grid-tied is about as simple as it gets.
A standalone system has to be much more complex and I just don't see it working well without at least a couple batteries.