Patent ID: 8851560

Claim:
A vehicle with a multi-level roof for supporting a deployable solar array, comprising: a) A means of electrical storage; b) A means of electrical locomotion; c) An axis in the direction that the vehicle travels in a straight line; d) an upper roof surface; e) one or more lower roof surfaces; an overlap of the upper roof surface over a minimum of approximately 5 percent of the area of at least one of the lower roof surfaces; g) one or more solar panels covering a minimum of approximately 10 percent of the upper roof surface and one or more solar panels covering at least 10 percent of at least one of the one or more lower roof surfaces when the deployable solar array is in an un-deployed position; h) an overlap of solar panels wherein a minimum of approximately one square foot of at least one solar panel above the uppermost roof surface overlaps the footprint—of at least one solar panel below the uppermost roof surface when the array is undeployed and a roof between them the overlapping panels and wherein the panels, when deployed, expose a larger area towards the source of solar energy than the roof of the vehicle and wherein said larger area occupies a substantially rectangular shape which conforms to a parking space.