[hailmike]

What a biased article:

"that comes out to 10 to 20 miles per day, which is near negligible if you’re trying to use the car for anything other than city errands."

10-20 miles per day is a big chunk of a commute for a lot of people. This is hardly negligible.

[MichaelCollins]

How many of those people leave their car parked in direct sunlight the entire day? I use my car for city errands but it spends 99% of the time in a parking garage. The few minutes a day my car is outside in use could provide what, a hundred meters worth of juice? Useless.

Even if I wanted to store my car parked on the street, I don't even know where in my neighborhood I could do that. There are trees and tall buildings that shade nearly every street for at least a substantial part of the day.

[qqqwerty]

I live in a suburb. Despite nearly every house having a garage, almost everyone parks in the driveway or on the street and uses the garage for storage or other purposes. And the way the trees (minimal, and mostly in backyards) and houses are laid out (primarily single story ranch houses) I would estimate that most vehicles spend at least 60-70% of the day in sunlight (particularly so during the mid-day period where the highest irradiance is available) if not more. And conveniently this suburb is about 10 miles away from a handful of different office hubs. A car like this would be a massive hit here. EVs are already taking off (I am seeing a ton of Bolts). Not having to plug in every night would certainly be a popular selling point.

Just because it doesn't work for you personally doesn't mean it is a bad idea.

[TaylorAlexander]

My car has spent basically 100% of the last 5 years exposed to open sky, ever since moving away from a place with trees. Both my home and workplace parking situations have good sun exposure. Most of the spaces at my apartment complex have good sun exposure as a lot of the spots are set back from buildings.