I hear that most solar panels are wired in line, so if you get any shade on one panel, none of them work. What?!!!!! Will the Aptera be different. Parking under trees etc or not in full sun. And if you get the full package, looks like it blocks your review mirror. Or is that a camera?
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There have been advances dealing with this partial shading issue in home PV solar arrays. Both microinverters and power optimisers essentially allow every solar panel in a system to operate independently. So, if one or more panels are shaded, the others can still produce and use their full output. However, this is a more complex and expensive system than the older / traditional system where partial shading did significantly bring down the usable output from non-shaded panels. I doubt Aptera is going with this more complex solution, though perhaps we will be surprised. For most scenarios in parking lots, driveways, etc., cars will likely be either fully out in the sun or fully shaded, so partial shade performance across the relatively small area of an Aptera's top surface would likely not happen too frequently. If the car is entirely in shade, then of course the output of the entire system will go down anyhow (whether or not it has microinverters and power optimisers).