Not even close. Its a 28KWH battery. A solar panel 1 meter by about 3/4 meter produces about 100WH so you'd need to cover a couple parking spaces to get enough power to be useful.
-Curt ________________________________ From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Hendrik and Fay <heni...@gmail.com>; Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Sacrilegious talk about white man magic How much power is required to recharge the Leaf? I wonder if enough photocells could be put into the windows to recharge enough to get the vehicle home and not have to call for a tow. Might be expensive and cumbersome and most people would not want to put up with that. Randy On 13/08/2014 7:18 PM, Hendrik and Fay via Mercedes wrote: > According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf stop go > really eats into the range, probably to do with using climate control > and the physics of getting a stationary object moving. > > Not sure if the trailer idea would be suitable for everyone, some > people are not comfortable towing a trailer, however the concept is > good insofar that if you build a proper camping trailer with fridge > and 240v power and hook it up to a EV 4x4. > > Yes the lack of oil threads will be a problem but would they not still > use grease in some bearings, M1 grease? Perhaps we'll have to have > battery threads? > > Hendrik > who is controlled with electricity > > On 14/08/14 05:00, Archer75--- via Mercedes wrote: >> That might give her the extra charge she would need to get home. >> >> IIRC one of their problems was that Nissan advertised a range of 100 >> miles, but under normal conditions it only gets 70 miles. That made >> it close, but they could still make the round trip in bus lanes. >> Gerry >> >> On 8/13/2014 12:46 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >>> Depending on how much extra capacity she needs a small generator >>> might make sense. I've got a 1200w 2 stroke generator that will run >>> 8 hours at 50% load with 1 gallon of gas. It wouldn't make a huge >>> difference but if she only needed a little more... >>> >>> Sounds like her commute was iffy for the car and they're running the >>> AC hard. Stop and go traffic shouldn't hurt the range of an EV >>> anywhere near what it does to a gas car. >>> >>> -Curt > > _______________________________________ _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
