Originally Posted by Robbie

It won't. It takes massive solar panels to power a home...and that's if you are not using a lot of electricity.

The small solar panel on top of a car would be useful to help charge the battery for the average person who goes to work and parks their car in the sun from 9 to 5.
But it definitely wouldn't give it but maybe 5 minutes of battery life like that.

I have solar yard lights. And the small solar panels on each one are double the size of the light fixture (way bigger in comparison than a car solar panel would be). And it takes all day long for that to fully charge 2 AA batteries to run the tiny led light in the fixture for 6 hours.

Now that it's winter time and there's less daylight, my yard lights only run about 4 hours.

No way an electric car is going to run off that.

The solution I read that makes more sense is the one that has the actual road you are driving on as a "battery charger" with charging current in it and your cars battery charging every second you are on the road.

But that would be a huge infrastructure issue.

Too bad we didn't use that 2 trillion of "stimulus" money that was basically thrown away and built electric cars and rebuilt the highways to power them.
That would have put people to work and changed everything.

But I guess it was more important to give that money to politicians buddies (like always)