The fallacy of charging electric vehicles via solar panels feeding into a battery storage array then into an EV
Every single stage of energy transformation incurs a roughly 10 percent loss (mostly as heat). And right at the start, solar panels themselves are only 20 pct efficient so 80 percent of incident light in optimal conditions is automatically 'wasted' as heat by the panels themselves.
Lets break it down and this will show what a scam EV's and the Cults of Net Zero and Electric Jesus really are...
- It is only legit if you only use solar energy collected with panels on your own property and stored energy from those solar panels kept as chemical energy in your own home battery system that you convert back to electricity to supply to the car which then re-converts it back to stored chemical energy.
- Each energy transformation step incurs a roughly 10 percent energy loss (primarily as heat). If you charge an electric vehicle at all from the grid you are purely virtue-signalling as Net Zero is the ultimate green-washing scam and you have become a Cult member. So solar take light energy, changes it to electricity, which then changes to chemical energy.
- That's two stages of energy loss. The reverse process to charge any EV from a battery system is another two stages of energy loss. So out of the quantity of electricity output from the solar panels you lose 10 percent at each step.
- So 100 pct becomes 90, which becomes 81 (panels to batteries). For the second stage (batteries to EV) you start with 81 pct, which drops to 73 pct, then finally into the EV battery itself you only get 64 pct of the energy originally collected from the solar panels. Then when you actually drive the EV, you have two more loss stages - battery to electricity, and electricity to mechanical work. So you start at 64 pct, lose 10 pct down to 58 pct, then convert to mechanical work incurring another 10 pct loss down to 53 pct.
- So at the end of the process, of the 100 percent of energy output by the solar cells, only half of that ever gets turned into mechanical work by driving the vehicle.
- So The 'efficiency' of the full 'envelope' of solar panels to batteries to EV is very poor.
- Also do not forget that solar panels themselves are only 20 pct efficient, so of the light they collect, 80 percent is wasted as heat that the silicon cell structure cannot transform to electricity. So before you even start worrying about batteries your starting point is only 20 pct of the light energy that the panels get.
- This means that of all the light energy your fantastic solar panels collected, 53 percent of that is just over 10 percent. So the total energy envelope from solar panels to mechanical work from driving the car is only about 10 percent efficient! Net Zero my arse - it's a complete scam.
None of this takes into account the economics of all the raw materials and infrastructure required *just* to make the solar equipment, batteries, and associated equipment. Almost all of that is made in China, which is ironically the country with arguably the cheapest electricity on the planet.
Lets break it down and this will show what a scam EV's and the Cults of Net Zero and Electric Jesus really are...
- It is only legit if you only use solar energy collected with panels on your own property and stored energy from those solar panels kept as chemical energy in your own home battery system that you convert back to electricity to supply to the car which then re-converts it back to stored chemical energy.
- Each energy transformation step incurs a roughly 10 percent energy loss (primarily as heat). If you charge an electric vehicle at all from the grid you are purely virtue-signalling as Net Zero is the ultimate green-washing scam and you have become a Cult member. So solar take light energy, changes it to electricity, which then changes to chemical energy.
- That's two stages of energy loss. The reverse process to charge any EV from a battery system is another two stages of energy loss. So out of the quantity of electricity output from the solar panels you lose 10 percent at each step.
- So 100 pct becomes 90, which becomes 81 (panels to batteries). For the second stage (batteries to EV) you start with 81 pct, which drops to 73 pct, then finally into the EV battery itself you only get 64 pct of the energy originally collected from the solar panels. Then when you actually drive the EV, you have two more loss stages - battery to electricity, and electricity to mechanical work. So you start at 64 pct, lose 10 pct down to 58 pct, then convert to mechanical work incurring another 10 pct loss down to 53 pct.
- So at the end of the process, of the 100 percent of energy output by the solar cells, only half of that ever gets turned into mechanical work by driving the vehicle.
- So The 'efficiency' of the full 'envelope' of solar panels to batteries to EV is very poor.
- Also do not forget that solar panels themselves are only 20 pct efficient, so of the light they collect, 80 percent is wasted as heat that the silicon cell structure cannot transform to electricity. So before you even start worrying about batteries your starting point is only 20 pct of the light energy that the panels get.
- This means that of all the light energy your fantastic solar panels collected, 53 percent of that is just over 10 percent. So the total energy envelope from solar panels to mechanical work from driving the car is only about 10 percent efficient! Net Zero my arse - it's a complete scam.
None of this takes into account the economics of all the raw materials and infrastructure required *just* to make the solar equipment, batteries, and associated equipment. Almost all of that is made in China, which is ironically the country with arguably the cheapest electricity on the planet.
