Inane Concepts in Electric Transportation

Here’s a concept from Ford that strikes me as totally asinine (though, as always, I’m willing to look at other viewpoints).   

As we all know, it’s possible to put solar PV on the roof of an electric vehicle to charge the battery, but the area of the roof is insufficient to provide a meaningful amount of charge, even under ideal conditions.  Here’s a solution: build a large canopy for the car that focuses the sunlight from a much larger area.  But the solution has a new problem: as the sun moves across the sky, we’ll have to move the canopy continually with respect to the car.  The solution to the new problem?  Move the car around underneath the canopy throughout the day.

Is there some law of physics that makes this impossible?  Of course not.  Are there forces of economics and common sense that make this impractical in the extreme? To say the very least.  And check out the video, where the representative offers this to people who don’t have access to the grid.  Silly stuff, the kind that wins prizes in Rube Goldberg contests.