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Nice! More surface area means more power. Good thing your power company is so accommodating. In some areas power companies are very not friendly to solar households. Placement absolutely matters, I have already identified the best place to park my car in my neighborhood for the most sunshine.

I am able to get 315 watts worth of panels on the top of my first generation Chevy Volt. Using these panels. They fit just right. https://www.lensunsolar.com/Products/Flexible-solar-panel/Black-flexible-solar-panel?product_id=487

It's not about saving money at all. I think it is super cool to be able to charge up my car with the sun where ever it happens to be parked.

1. I get your point with hard panels. I will be using flexible ones and I will contour them to my car's roof, so no disrupted airflow. Are you saying flexible panels are shit and shouldn't be used at all for solar applications? 2. I need a second battery powerful enough to trigger the...

I'm mounting solar panels to my Chevy Volt's roof. I know I need at least a 12v 100ah lithium iron phosphate battery to gather enough watts from the panels to get my car to draw from this secondary battery to its primary battery. Currently, I only use a 120v 12a outlet for charging my car. It...