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Solar roof replacement for sunroof?

3.3K views 17 replies 10 participants last post by  DFrantz  
I'd be pretty surprised if there was a custom fit panel. Further, any change to the roofline might well offset quite a bit to aerodynamics over the gains in solar energy gathered. So it can be hard to actually get improvements. On my XC70 it was already behind a basket so aero was already quite spoiled, and I just have it to help keep the battery charged up from when I wasn't using the XC70 as a daily.
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Thanks for that. I wonder with that particular size, have you gotten some kind of measure in how fast it helps top the battery?
I have not. It's not very much though. I have one set up for an ham radio that gets used once a week and it keeps up with that. I think it makes less than I'd want. I have a crazy busy life and thousands too many projects to sit down and get good at something like testing how effective cheap ebay solar panels are, but I'd be someone has a youtube video on it.