• DoomBot5@lemmy.world
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    9 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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        9 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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      9 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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          9 months ago

          1500 … Watts… per… hour?

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

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            9 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.