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To reduce hassle? To make it work when you live in a place where you park on the street and can't run wires to the car?
by gpm 18d ago
To reduce hassle?
To make it work when you live in a place where you park on the street and can't run wires to the car?
- TeaVMFan 18d agoYes to both, plus freedom to drive/camp anywhere, even far from a guaranteed plug.
- orwin 18d agoFrom someone with a boat and solar panels: cheap solar panels needs cooling, so space between the panels and the stuff they are stuck one. This reduces aerodynamics a lot, which isn't an issue with something going 8 knots max, but I have a friend with a trimaran whose solar panels reduce his max speed of 20 knot to 18 (38kmh -> 33.5), which is why he decided to remove them from his amas and have movable solar panel instead (he put them when he beach or stay at a mooring). My next boat will be a tri too, I just have to find half a million somewhere.
- gpm 17d agoYeah, I can see that. The aptera design has flexible panels molded to the body under the clear aerodynamic shell. It shouldn't suffer from aerodynamic losses but the panels probably lose efficiency from heat.