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Costs that have dropped precipitously over the past 20 years
It's not the cost of the panels, it's the cost of the structure to hold them. And the maintenance involved.
There are solar generating facilities literally everywhere now. To mount them high enough to park under is a miniscule cost difference. There are also already massive parking lots with covers all over the place. We have probably 5,000+ covered parking spaces at the airport in my city, for example