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The big question is how will you integrate that into the van's power system? I doubt four panels will make enough voltage to work with the stock charging system, and even if it did, there will be interlocks preventing you from driving while charging (as it presuumes you're at a stationary charging point).
They could connect it to a "solar generator" and L1 charge from that. That's nowhere close to seamless and would be pretty annoying for daily use, but not terrible while camping.
Yeah, that could work. But definitely going to need some intermediary tech, and integrate it.
Plus there are probably some efficiency losses in an inverter taking the DC output of the solar-charged battery and generating an AC waveform expected by the car's ICCU, to be redirected into charging the cells of the actual car.