You’ve made an assumption - that the owner of the car has a roof, and can charge the car from there. People who don’t live in a place with off street parking to install a cable need a slightly different solution.
Exactly. Maybe just because I live in a city and almost everyone I know with a car will just find street parking somewhere within walking distance of their apartment.
So .. it would make sense to make a law that requires new parking spaces to have a solar roof which can charge the cars which park there for a few. This would spread rather quickly, I think.
I have solar panels at home and can charge a car .. but I'm mostly parked elsewhere when the sun is shining the most.
So do we, but you can't produce the electricity at one location and consume it in another. In the non-practical sense where our government decided that this is not possible.
>it would make sense to make a law that requires new parking spaces to have a solar roof... This would spread rather quickly, I think.
"If we threaten people with the state monopoly on violence, they'll do that thing I want."
Sure, probably true!
If solar parking lots are such a great idea, why do you need the threat? It seems like businesses or environmental groups would already be clamoring to install them.
PV parking is a highly visible status symbol and good PR signal for your community or company (hence the few installations), but actually it isn't a great RoI either financially or for the environment.
Sorry - I wasn’t explicit enough. The vast majority of existing and new developments where I live have on street parking - it’s not allocated, there’s no bays.
