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This has me thinking about parking a box truck in my driveway plastered in solar panels and plugged into the house.

This is significantly more over-built than what you are describing, but there is a company building along this idea[0]. Trailer you can drag to location, unfurl the solar panels which then charge the batteries. Being marketed for disasters and military.

[0] https://www.sesame.solar/

I've seen some promising results from solar fences. Because the panels are getting so cheap you can offset the efficiency loss by buying more. Plus, because they are vertical and double sided they get more sunlight earlier and later in the day.

That actually sounds like a viable regulatory hack. Technically an "EV" with "V2G capability", but actually it's a truck full of batteries with solar panels hanging off it.

Your local homeowners association would like a word.

also a distinctly American regulatory entity!

Eh, it's not unique, it's just that the American ones seem to be so much more empowered, excessive, and capable of generating news and social media headlines.

The UK variant seems to have more traditional failure modes of "excessive charges for maintenance of communal areas": https://parliamentnews.co.uk/tales-of-intimidation-excessive... , but people are still capable of having the occasional fistfight or protracted legal dispute about the wrong kind of hedge in a more informal, adhoc way.

Following the great american "mobile home" tradition. Slap a couple wheels under any object and it is magically removed from countless regulatory rules.

Just lookout for tornadoes.

One of my neighbors has this, I've always wondered why it was like this until now.

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