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In-Home Solar: How Many Panels to Fully Charge Your EV?

Setec Powerr

Here is a table with the battery capacity, range, and kWh per 100 miles for some popular electric vehicle models, which are key to calculating the number of solar panels needed: Brand Model Battery Capacity (kWh) Range (miles) Energy Consumption (kWh/100 mi) Tesla Model S 100 370 27 Audi e-tron 95 204 46 Hyundai Kona 64 258 24.8

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#. Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley company that makes electric cars, says it has already sold 150 of its $109,000 Roadsters in the Bay Area.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Kulongoski, Oregon as the electric-car manufacturer may be eyeing the “green” city of Portland. They are either glorified golf cart city cars like this one or they are only for the very wealthy like the Tesla. The electricity for recharging has to come from somewhere, which means power plants. before 2010.