CharlieGirl
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I actually have a flexible 100 watt solar setup with a 100Ah AGM battery on my pick up truck. The solar panel is glued onto the roof of my truck shell. Its to power my 12v fridge while camping. Haven't really had a need to have the camera run 24/7 but I will probably put the cameras on the second battery to run on parking mode for the heck of it. I have a battery isolator that is also a solar charge controller. I did have stuff stolen from the back of truck shell when I forgot to lock it. The camera running while in parked mode would have caught the perp.
Please let us know how you get on. Whatever you achieve will be much harder here in the UK where there is less sunlight - and of course if it's behind a windscreen. From what I read solar panels should work fairly well still behind a windscreen, even if tinted but with less efficiency. BMW (I think it is) have some model with a new type of ultra thin flexible solar panel bonded to the roof of their vehicles and of course Tesla are big into the idea of solar powered cars.