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by thejohnconway 1141 days ago
Their page addresses that point, it says the panel will charge for 20km of driving in a day, and the average micro car does 12 (not exactly sure what a micro car is though...). Not having to plug anything in is actually a pretty big deal in many European cites where people do not have garages, and on-street chargers are still sparse.

I don't know if this will work, but things like this deserve some consideration.

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> not exactly sure what a micro car is though...

A popular modern example is the Citroen Ami: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_Ami_(electric_vehicle)

Vintage, the Isetta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta

There are two main classes of microcar in Europe. This particular one is classified under L6e in Europe, so has a maximum design speed of 45km/h.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadricycle_(EU_vehicle_classi...

I would be concerned about finding a sunny enough spot in a city to charge. Even their promo video showed it sitting in the shadow of some building.
there are these things called garages. People in many places have them. In big cities, you usually wind up parking in one. They tend not to be made of transparent materials.
That’s literally in my comment. Here is London, for example, garages are rare, and nearly everyone parks on the street or in their front yard.