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Id like to see some more of his videos to get a better understanding of how serious he is with that as it appears to be one big piss take to me.

But he'd do a lot better if he turned his car around 90 degrees to face the sun rather than be side on to it.

...but at least it's somewhat plausible.

If you had the time to sit and wait for a charge, days, and if your next destination was close enough on fairly flat or downhill run, you'd have a chance. In that video the effective charge rate with four 100W portable SolarPV panels was several hours per kilowatt. That's several hours for a few kilometres of flat conservative driving, if you didn't need to transport stuff you could probably walk that far faster than waiting for the charge.

Let's say his portable SolarPV can give him 2Kw per day charging, ignoring the standby current consumption, that's 40 days for a full charge off an 80Kw battery.

Keep in mind, your off-road EV is going to be bigger and heavier than say a Tesla S, but even a Tesla S use about an 80Kw or 98Kw battery to get to full range. I read some reports the 4WD EV might use batteries as high as 120Kw to 150Kw.

Real world range depends on many things such as terrain, weather, regenerative braking, driving style, etc., etc.. Actually, I know people who have toured for hundreds of kilometres around the Blue Mountains in a Tesla and used only 40km of battery range through regenerative braking, but it was a carefully planned trip just to see if it was possible.