Was just a thought experiment
Perhaps post-apocalyptic Tesla usage? Also, silent vehicles useful for sneaking past zombies.
I would say it's easied to sneak out some tank of gas than stay in the broad daylight for days
If you are going to be away from the vehicle for possible upwards of a week while in the back country the intermittent solar charging may be more than adequate. Also a generator only runs while you have fuel... what if you ran out of fuel or as
@ShockOnT joked are in a state of society where generator fuel may not be available. Solar has the downside of needing the sun to be out to generate power; however, as long as the sun is still there you have "fuel" for the solar generator... and if the sun isn't there I think we have serious other problems.
If you want to play it theorical.. fine, but again, try let's say in 10 years, maybe the panel efficency has gained something
but for now, it's totally useless
TL;DR: not likely anytime soon
I have a 10kW home solar system with 2 SMA Sunny Boy 6000 Inverters. The cool thing about these inverters is that they each have an outlet for emergency use when the grid is down. Although they advertise a 1500W capacity, the reality is that the power is far from stable and the Tesla UMC doesn't handle that very well. I did some experiments with off-grid mode and car charging, and found that even the lowest amperage setting on the car eventually experienced enough faults that it would stop charging. I think it would recover for about 5 or 6 instances of the inverter cutting power because it could not keep up, but then the charge port would turn red and I had to unplug/replug to get it to charge again. This was with a rooftop 5kW setup in Florida, so I find it highly unlikely that you'll get anything useful out of a portable rig. You could walk to civilization faster than charging by portable solar.
SUNNY BOY 3000TL-US / 3800TL-US / 4000TL-US / 5000TL-US / 6000TL-US / 7000TL-US / 7700TL-US
The best shot, if you really want to do it ( albeit inefficent ) is to store the solar power in battery, then use the battery to charge the car at regular interval for short period.
Just say you have a 5kw battery thas is being charged from the solar panel, then, you charge the car from this battery for.. let's say 1h? then you shut it down for 5h, then again, 1h, then of course it's night, and you try again the day after.
this could be planned i suppose.. but it's really prone to problem
I also suppose that, if we just put it in the theorical planet, you don't really need to togle the cable and put it in again, this is a software choice ( the need to disengage ), so you can remotely reset it ( maybe you need root access or similar )
