Re: Perhaps a hybrid would be a better solution?
> a 5k EUR solar array can easily charge my electric car for daily needs. It's a 50k EUR car, so that's hardly a huge investment in comparison.
As an additional investment, it's another 10% on top - that's quite sizeable percentage increase. It just sounds like a small investment because one's in 10's the other's in units. If we normalise down - your car is 5000, and for solar you need to spend another 500, would you feel quite the same way?
If you got a 10% raise at work, you'd probably be delighted.
> If designed properly, these could be cheap, quiet, clear and reliable
Personally, I'm of the view that all new build developments should have on-street chargers, and a specific %age of area set aside for solar (whether that's solar on the houses, or a "communal" area feeding back into the grid, or both)
But, I also don't think it'd be cheap or reliable in practice.
> and the great thing about electric cars is they can store electricity so can be charged when it suits.
I'm not sure I follow here - my ICE car can also store energy. If I fill the tank, that fuel's still there when I come back to it.
Left long enough, petrol might go stale, but diesel doesn't *and* as far as I'm aware, you'll see a discharge rate from that leccy battery.
That's not to say there aren't other arguments for EV's, I just don't think this one is one
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