Range: 50 miles if you are willing to deep cycle the battery. Price ~$10K. The panels alone would cost half of that. He has a charger and will be using it. But it kinda misses the point.
I agree that high efficiency panels would be an improvement. But they would be very expensive. Solar PV panels have gotten very expensive, largely due to very high demand in Germany (or so I hear). But a new plant has just come on line, so I'm hoping they will come back down. I'm not going to put those things on by roof until they are cheaper. OTOH, I will be putting water heating panels up there soon. If you are considering DIY solar, I suggest you study the rules about rebates. You could easily make a system that doesn't qualify. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ---Paul Valery Mr O wrote: > What is the range with the batteries? How much did he pay? I'd > look at getting a high efficieny panel or just use grid power. > Use the solar panels for a different project like hot water. > > > --- Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Check out the solar-electric car a friend recently bought. >> Unfortunately the solar panels take several days to fully >> charge >> the batteries. And the car is not running Linux ... yet. >> >> It's small. Looks like a VW microbus that somebody left in >> the >> dryer too long. >> -- _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
