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Originally Posted by nak
With the Tesla roadster, the cost of the car is out of whack (2.5 times more cdostly than an Elise), but the cost of the fuel is not. Anyone who can afford a Tesla roadster can afford enough solar array to fuel it. What's more, using solar to power a Tesla for twenty years is cheaper right now than paying $4.00 a gallon to fuel a 25 MPG Elise. I used 20 years because that is the waranty period for solar panels. Their actual usable life is far longer.
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This is big part of the problem... the capitalization costs: while people in our demographic might be able to afford enough solar panels to charge a car, most people cannot. The public is going to need commercially provided power for at least the near future. So the real question is why dont we see commercial solar plants on a large scale: because the true cost of solar power generation is still more expensive in comparison to things like coal or we would see much more of these plants being built.