• HollandJim@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Sure it would! But, you know - forage locally. Like within a few kilometers.

      My ID.3 gets much better range per kWh than that brick on wheels, and I’d be able to build a solar farm for the difference in price… I doubt the brick will ever see dirt roads (they slide off easily, it seems).

      Get an EV, by all means, but the CyberBlock is the dumbest vehicle around. A monument to arrogance.

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      8 months ago

      It takes 3-4 days to fully charge my car 0-100% using a 120v wall plug. That’s about 1500W, which can be produced by 3-5 panels depending on their size.

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          8 months ago

          That’s the slowest charging method using not a lot of panels. I would also hope you’re not planning on regularly driving 200-300 miles to need this much charging.

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        8 months ago

        I think you are confused.

        Volts * Time != Watts

        EV Battery Capacity is measured in Watt Hours, not Watts.

        If you had 1500 Watts Hours in an EV Battery… that’d be about 1/10th a charge of the earliest EVs with roughly 10 kWh batteries and less than 1/100th of the CyberTruck’s approximately 123 kWh battery pack.

        Yes, 3 to 4 smaller consumer grade solar panels … really more like 8 to 10… can have a cumulative energy production of 1500 Watt Hours…

        But Watts are not Watt Hours. And 1500 Watt Hours is an extremely small amount of energy in terms of an EV.

        I entirely do not mean to be a dick here, I’m genuinely curious as to what you are actually trying to describe.

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            8 months ago

            1500 … Watts… per… hour?

            A ‘rate’ typically includes a per unit of time aspect.

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              8 months ago

              Huh, just noticed your the same person replying with that ridiculous scenario and you don’t even know units of electricity. Sounds accurate.