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Is the roof of a Tesla a solar panel?
Why not? If you park your car for day or two, when you come back it should have more of a charge than when you left it. My $20.00 yard lights have them...
Is there a solar panel on the back of your phone?
Why not?
If you set your phone down on your desk for a while, when you pick it up again it should have more of a charge than when you left it. My $2.00 calculator has one...
Bigger question, why has no one brought this up already? They seem like obvious questions to me.
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I'm not really a greenie, more a techie and engineer. But, the Aptera is the only production 'car' (3 wheels) that has solar with 700W of solar max power. They say you can get 40 miles of 'free' driving on that on a perfect day. Tesla cars are much heavier and power hungry-er than the Aptera and their team decided it wasn't worth it from what I read.