How has this not been created yet?

[Saghost]

Well, there's this:

EV ARC™ – Electric Vehicle Autonomous Renewable Charger | Envision Solar

Portable Solar EV charging to a somewhat useful level. Of course, it's not back of the car type portable. It's designed to be moved on a big flatbed, and weighs around 10,000 pounds. It also costs around $40k.

I think there's are markets for it though - some sort of rental or leasing for outdoors events, emergency preparedness (someone like FEMA could truck a batch of these into a disaster area with a bunch of Leafs or Sparks and have a reliable form of transportation no matter what else is going on.)

 

[Xminus6]

Truth. BUT it would be cool to tell people about!

There's really nothing cool about it. That 1.5 miles is under ideal circumstances over the course of a whole day. Park it on the street near a tree for 3 hours and you'd be lucky to get 100 feet of charge out of it. It's a silly thing to put on a car. It's silly on a car that already only has 50 miles of EV range. Spend that money that you're using to put on a PV panel and just add more batteries.

For a Tesla it's even more ridiculous. Under perfectly ideal conditions you could charge the battery by 0.5%. Who would intentionally park their car in the baking hot sun to get a charge that is basically a rounding error for a Tesla. That's nine hours of sunlight to replicate about 3 minutes of charging at a standard level 2 charger.

 

[hill]

Forget solar, what about a powerpack to give you say 10 miles if you run out of power? You know , like the big battery jumpers . Probably would also have to be too big. Maybe in the future

can't a call to tesla pretty much do this - if one drives one of the new 60kWh models (as it's a disabled 75)? You simply call tesla (only a limited amt of times) - admit you're a giant moron that poorly planned your range & so you're out of juice

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[EVie'sDad]

can't a call to tesla pretty much do this - if one drives one of the new 60kWh models (as it's a disabled 75)? You simply call tesla (only a limited amt of times) - admit you're a giant moron that poorly planned your range & so you're out of juice

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Why? When you've got AAA, you're covered if you do make the mistake. Although apparently Tesla drivers tend to be less likely to run out of juice, according to others who read articles related to the service.

Their website is...
AAA Unveils North America's First Roadside Assistance Truck Capable of Charging Electric Vehicles | AAA NewsRoom