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To: Red Badger
55 mph (621 miles divided by 11.3 hours). 621 miles is pretty impressive! Even if that's cut by 10% for driving 80 mph we're talking about 560 miles on a charge.

I wonder how much wattage is coming in from the solar panel? Hard to imagine it being more then 500 watts (with at best 5 peak solar hours in a day that's 2.5kWh). For reference, the Mach-e gets 2.4 miles per kWh. Even with the BMW topping that at 7.14 miles/kWh, I guess an extra 20 or so miles.

I guess it better be all that and a bag of chips with the yuge cost.

22 posted on 04/14/2022 12:13:03 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right
... the photovoltaic array doesn’t actually add electricity into the main battery pack, but the 12-volt battery instead.
24 posted on 04/14/2022 12:13:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tell It Right

Wind resistance goes up with the square of the speed. I suspect it would be a lot more than a 10% reduction in range.


39 posted on 04/14/2022 12:34:30 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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