Big hydrocarbon plants are more effective than the little ones inside cars. There’s still other factors to consider like mining of minerals that contribute to make EVs not good, but they’re a little less bad for the environment than the combustion kind even if your energy comes from bad sources
But are all sides of the car in the optimal angle towards the sun?
No, but neither are solar panels on houses. For the car, it’s ideal to park facing North/South. For stationary solar panels, it’s ideal to have solar panels mounted on a pan/tilt platform so they can always face the sun, which is rare.
No trees or buildings near your parking spot that could shade your car?
It’s pretty clear at my house, I have a designated outdoor parking space. Not perfect but definitely sufficient for my commute. At my work there aren’t any obstructions.
If these panels didn’t go into a car, someone else would mount them to a roof instead.
No, they developed and patented their own tech for curved solar panels.
EVs eliminate fuck all as long as hydrocarbon power plants exist. Like Tesla’s famous diesel-powered solar charger.
They genuinely are about 3 times more efficient, so that’s not really accurate.
For US mix of power generation, EVs typically produce approximately 3 times less of CO2. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/are-electric-vehicles-definitely-better-climate-gas-powered-cars
Big hydrocarbon plants are more effective than the little ones inside cars. There’s still other factors to consider like mining of minerals that contribute to make EVs not good, but they’re a little less bad for the environment than the combustion kind even if your energy comes from bad sources
Larger power plants that don’t carry their fuel are much more efficient, but we’re still fucked if we don’t phase them out.
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale
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But that’s changing for the better?
Look into Aptera. It’s a solar EV that can get up to 40 miles of charge per day from the sun.
And if you’d plonk down that solar panel onto a roof where it catches much more sunlight, it would be able to produce even more electricity!
Idk, I park outside, I don’t think I’d really get that much more sunlight. Also I rent so I can’t just bolt stuff to my roof.
But are all sides of the car in the optimal angle towards the sun? No trees or buildings near your parking spot that could shade your car?
There is a pretty huge demand for solar panels right now. If these panels didn’t go into a car, someone else would mount them to a roof instead.
No, but neither are solar panels on houses. For the car, it’s ideal to park facing North/South. For stationary solar panels, it’s ideal to have solar panels mounted on a pan/tilt platform so they can always face the sun, which is rare.
It’s pretty clear at my house, I have a designated outdoor parking space. Not perfect but definitely sufficient for my commute. At my work there aren’t any obstructions.
No, they developed and patented their own tech for curved solar panels.