Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Anyone Familiar with "Go Sun"? It's a portable solar charger for cars. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Canconda@lemmy.ca to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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https://gosun.co/

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.

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[–] Steve 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

70-80 hrs assuming the earth doesn't revolve. Weeks.

[–] Steve 1 points 2 days ago

Yah I assumed they wouldn't be consecutive. We are talking about solar power on Earth.

[–] French75@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago

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.