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Anyone Familiar with "Go Sun"? It's a portable solar charger for cars. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net
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https://gosun.co/

Basically its a roof rack solar panel with a battery inside (includes AC outlet), extra fold out panels that cover the length of the car, and a charge cable for the car. They're about $5000 USD and are shipping the first ones out in Q3 this year.

As someone who lives in an appt and commutes, this would make an electric vehicle much more viable as there is no charging stations in my building or at my work. I saw this and immediately began researching what vehicle models would be coming to Canada in 2028.

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[–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's an insane amount of money to pay for so few solar panels. That gets you like 10 miles of range per day at best. I've seen people try this with many times this amount of solar charging capacity and they average around 50 miles of range per day.

This is like those power banks that have a solar panel attached to them. It's a nice idea in theory but in practice it takes 2 weeks for it to fully charge the battery so there's a good reason nobody is using those.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I just priced it out for a solar generator:

    Generator with 2kWh of storage capacity: $899

    200W solar panels: $379 each

    As far as I can tell, that means I can get basically the same capacity for $2800, just over half the price of this gosun product. There are different pros and cons but I'm not seeing the value proposition here.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    That is a standard markup for a low volume product. They designed the case, one assumes they have custom molds for it (not cheap). One assumes they have done some testing - the first pothole I'm forced to drive through shouldn't break it (I can think of a dozen different things that are likely to break if you don't design for that)

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