In which country are mostly solar panels used?

Has anyone used domestic solar photo-voltaic panels to charge an electric car?

  • I already have some panels (3kw) and need to re-slate another roof. I don't drive a lot and thought I could add some more panels to help power a green car.

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    Quite a few people use them to offset the cost.  It's not hard to calculate the size of the array needed. For example a Nissan Leaf has a battery equivalent to 24 KWH.  Let's say range is 70 miles on average so about 3 miles per KWH.  If you drive about 50 miles a week, that's about 2600 miles a year and 866 KWh.  Let's round to 1000 KWh to take into account charger efficiency. Your current array will easily produce 1000 Kwh in a year.

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