You need a lift to maintain them and a crane to install them. What happens when someone drives into them? Do you have space for the infrastructure to hook them up to the grid?
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You kinda answered your own questions there. You get a lift and a crane. Presumably whatever local company installed them would also repair them.
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They don't have to be hooked up to the grid necessarily of they directly charge the cars parked underneath
They only generate value when there are enough cars parked that need charging. How do you make sure that utilization is high?
Solar panels are expensive buy and install. They are good when they are used to their full potential. But installing them anywhere just cause it's a flat surface is not a good idea.
Factories and other places like that could easily size the solar plant to their normal needs. Sure, doesn't make sense to build every parking space like that, but some could definitely benefit
Put it on the factory roof and you don't have to worry about someone driving into them. Could be safer to maintain and inspect to depening on roof design.
Does it move? No.
Is there an are nearby where you can put them? No (unless you count on the roof of the adjacent building)
Answer: Sure
These foxes will disagree with you
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/foxes-use-solar-farm-as-natural-habitat/20424/
Because if you put a roof over the lot trucks can't keep getting perpetually bigger and more expensive.
Those cost money. Installation cost go up and maintenance cost every year goes up because you need that equipment.
If you have any sense you put them where they are cheap to put first. Not where there is any free space.
Can't talk about other countries but as someone working in the EV charging business in the UK that gets asked why we don't routinely do this for EV charging bays: planning permission. Anything that goes above head height is a right pain in the arse to get permission for.
(I also suspect people that ask that are wildly overestimating the power output of a parking bay's worth of solar vs what an EV takes to charge - if we do put panels up we just sell the energy straight to the grid, it's not worth the added complexity of trying to actually use the power ourselves)
Without knowing any technical details, anybody can see by looking that it will be be harder to build and maintain something like is pictured with those fragile individual car covers. A strong wind would take them away.
Why not build a proper roof to put them on?