Thank you Big Gav for your post. I think the concept is well worth exploring. I posted comments and links to Shai Agassi earlier this year. As I pointed out then, the idea has great potential for a symbiotic-like relationship with PV generated power.

There are two things limiting massive PV usage at present. 1) PV is still very expensive. 2) PV only produces power during daylight hours and storing the electricity is a major hurdle to overcome.

My feeling is that PV costs will decrease soon with thin film technology but the storage problem will not go away easily.

If large numbers of vehicles have storage batteries, as envisioned by Agassi, this might well be the answer to the second problem. Providing recharging during the day would help use the PV generated energy without having to employ pumped water technology (to higher elevation reservoirs for turbine-produced energy later) or other schemes to store the electricity - which usually entail large energy losses.

This alone makes the concept well worth exploring.

The economics of solar for this use look pretty good for some areas of Australia.
If you take Nanosolar's idea of building Municipal power:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/04/solar-thermal-municipal-power.html

Then you have a reasonable 2-10MW power system, which can be built on the ground and so would have easy maintenance and erection, and which would not need transmission to distances or even stepping down.
If we then throw away some of the first advantages, and build the solar arrays as a roof structure then you have garaging shaded from the sun.

First solar quoted a cost of $1.29/watt some time ago, so by the time you have put it in a system you might come out to $3/watt or so.
EV's do around 3miles/kwh, so if you allow 20 miles as the average two-way commute you might need 6kwh or so.
At 30degrees from the equator this is the pattern of solar incidence over the year:
http://www.powerfromthesun.net/chapter1/Chapter1.htm

See figure 1.6
So at that latitude just eye-balling it you might get around 40% of the rated capacity over the course of the day at the spring and autumn solstice.

If you rated the system at 1.5kw per car that would give the needed 6kwh at those times of the year, with a shortfall in the winter balanced by a surplus in the summer when it is most valuable and of course a power supply to the grid over the weekends when the office would perhaps be closed.

Putting the numbers together that is around $4500 per car, over 7 years or so that is about $650 per year, or $3.5 per working day (200days)

A lot of people would pay that to park their car in a shady spot anyway! - and the fuel is then 'free'

You need to also include the cost of the batteries, and their short life, which probably ends up costing more per day than the electricity to recharge them.

That is a different subject to the cost of the electricity supply, and anyway inaccurate.
Even lead acid batteries when allied to capacitors and some excess capacity have decent life, and many of the new batteries such as 123 systems and Altairnano have the ability to cycle many thousands of times.

Both maintenance and longevity are far better on an EV than for an ICE car.