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You can even buy solar panels at Harbor Freight these days. At the moment, nominal 100 watt panels for $95 each. If you can drive the screws and find somewhere to stick them, there's no need to sign up for a predatory lease. To level one charge (i.e. 120v at 15 amps, 1800 watts) you'd only need 18 of the things, maybe call it 20 to have some fudge factor built in, that's $1880 plus probably some bits and bobs for a frame and wiring, inverters, and so on.
That'd only be 151 square feet of panels. Your local code authority will probably have less to say about it if you have a solar carport plugged directly into your car and nothing else versus nailing them to your house's roof, as well.