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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You'd need to have more moving parts that can break, watch out of aerodynamics, and keep the solar array in a form factor smaller than the car to prevent neighbouring solar cars from deploying and breaking yours.

The concept is nice, but not really worth it IMO.

Edit: not counting that cars are pretty bad in the first place. Put solar on buses? That seems a bigger payoff