alt Hacker NewsI was curious to try a project: can I charge my car 100 miles per day for under $1000 all in?
I’m trying to source a battery power pack and cheap panels.
I was curious to try a project: can I charge my car 100 miles per day for under $1000 all in?
I’m trying to source a battery power pack and cheap panels.
That would be around 30kwh per day so probably not, but you could get close.
Assuming you're in the US, new solar modules go for about $0.28/watt.
If you dump the entire $1k into just modules, that will get you about 3.5kW of panels. Which will probably hit your target on sunny days during the summer.
But that doesn't include inverters if you want to do a grid tie, or batteries if you don't, or wiring, or whatever you're going to mount the panels on.