Can Solar Power Charge an Electric Car?

Can Solar Power Charge an Electric Car?

There are a couple different ways that you can charge an electric car with solar. 

Electric cars allow you to simply plug them into an outlet at your house to charge. If you take this approach and want to power your car with solar, you’d simply install a grid-tied solar system.

If you charge your car at night, that power is going to be coming straight off the utility grid. However, if you have a big enough system, it should’ve put power onto the grid for you during the day.

The other way is to invest in a solar car charger unit. Some of these actually have solar panels right on them.