After reading about the Fisker Karma and seeing that it has a solar panel that takes up the whole top of the car, I started to think about parking ramps.
Currently in the ramp where I park, I feel slighted if I have to park on the roof. In the summer my car is too hot and the winter it is too cold, so the roof parking is inherently the worst place in the whole ramp. But what if every car had a solar panel on their roof. That would make the roof the premium place to park, don’t you think?
I understand that this won’t happen anytime soon. The Karma is going to be expected to cost $80,000 to begin with and won’t get down to their sweet spot of $40,000 for a while, which is still too high for the majority of car buyers.
But won’t it be cool to be able to go 50 miles on electricity before the gasoline engine kicks in? How about getting 8 hours of sunlight to recharge before going home? As it is, 50 miles would be just enough for our commute right now.