The sunroof was about 4' by 4'. Filling that area with solar panels
would get something like 250 watts. Not enough to run much of anything
directly.

Mark

Kim Brennan wrote:
> On a few Vanagons that had the enormous sun roof, it occurs to me,
> that replacing the sunroof with solar panels would be interesting.
> Wouldn't change the drag characteristics.
>
>
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Poppie Jagersand wrote:
>
>> Not practical for a conventional vehicle. they are too heavy and
>> have too high rolling resistance and wind drag to work just off
>> solar cells.
>