It seems to me that 8 hours in the sun while at work, you wouldn't be
running things directly, you'd be recharging the batteries, while
otherwise doing nothing...every little bit helps.

On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:44 PM, mark drillock wrote:

> 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.
>>