[bruce511]

Not to be picky, but 1600w is a really small solar system. These days a panel is around 500w.

Where I stay 8 panels is a "small" system. I have 20. In summer that generates 85% of my household needs. (It would be 100% but I deliberately only got a very small 5kw battery.)

In winter it's less (mostly because of heating requirements). But I have space for some more panels, so I'm running the numbers. (I'm currently getting 16% return on capital spent, and there's a point of diminishing returns.)

Obviously ymmv. There are roof, and land, constraints. There are financial constraints etc. But being off-grid, or partially off grid, is very possible for a lot of folk.

[Gibbon1]

Just making the point that the cost of solar panels to power a car is a fraction of the purchase price of the car.

If the world can afford to manufacture 100 million light vehicles a year it can afford to manufacture the solar panels to power them.