Genesis G80 EV’s solar-panel roof provides 1100km vary per 12 months, model claims

The Genesis Electrified G80 sedan’s photo voltaic roof panel can add about 1100km of extra driving vary over the course of a 12 months, based on the corporate’s personal analysis in Europe.

The rooftop photo voltaic array manufactured from photovoltaic silicon materials trickle-feeds energy into the automobile’s 87.2kWh battery when driving and when parked, augmenting common plug-in charging.

The panels in good daylight will produce electrical energy equal to that wanted for 2 100W bulbs or 11 family LED fluorescent lamps, Genesis claims.

The photo voltaic roof can also be in a position to cost the Electrified G80’s low voltage 12V battery, offering extra energy for options such because the air-con – a infamous reducer of vary.

Whereas the analysis is clearly to be taken with a pinch of salt, it finally claims the roof can add greater than 266kWh of incremental vitality per 12 months – roughly the identical as a median UK family makes use of per 30 days.

The analysis based mostly its findings on a median of slightly below six hours of daylight, through which the roof can add round 0.7 kWh of vitality which interprets to an additional 3km vary every day, or 1095km yearly.

One may think blazing Aussie summers would create much more juice, as a result of six hours of daylight hardly scratches the floor.

One potential problem not talked about is the diploma to which the added roof weight impacts effectivity within the first place, which must be thought of. The G80 EV’s WLTP consumption is nineteen.1kWh/100km, which is okay however not spectacular.

In addition to the photo voltaic roof, the Electrified G80 has an exterior vehicle-to-load (V2L) characteristic that permits clients to plug in electrical home equipment at a most output of three.6kW.

That stated, in Australia it’s priced from a lofty $145,000 plus on-road prices, making the Electrified G80 a complete $30,000 dearer than a decked-out G80 3.5T AWD with its twin-turbo V6.

Give us your ideas on photo voltaic roofs under, ought to they develop into a extra widespread characteristic in EVs?

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