If you are from Texas...Cybertruck can power a house

wanderingaimlessly wrote:

rlw999 wrote:

wanderingaimlessly wrote:
Like everything from these articles, this is smoke/mirrors/slanted, and highly biased.

Curious though, how would this compare to a cheap non envirowhacked genny with a 55 gallon drum of gasoline?
Tesla, 3 or 4 hours IF you have a large enough inverter, then dead and useless, for $60,000
Cheap genny and a drum of gasoline 55 gallons, 4 gallons a day to keep the fridge (and beer) cold,,, two weeks at $500
Yep typical.

The cybertruck is reported to have up to a 200KWh battery. A modern 'fridge uses around 50KWh of energy a month, so if all you want to do is keep your fridge cold, you can power it off your cybertruck battery for 4 months. And you don't have to worry about storing a 55 gallon drum of gasoline and keep it rotated and fresh. And you won't need to turn off the generator every 4 days to change the oil.

But actual humans dont only run the fridge, I used that simply as an example. And if you wany to really compare, dont forget that the genny can be "reloaded " for about $130 for two more weeks,
The Tesla will still be a $60,000 fishing sinker.

I think everyone here knows how little power you can use while boondocking if you try -- but even without trying hard, I could power my home gas furnace, run all the lights I need, and power the 'fridge, and still manage to get weeks of usage out of 200KWh of energy.

If you can easily go buy another 55 gallons of fuel during this power emergency, why not just charge up your Cybertruck wherever you're buying fuel? None of the gas stations around me have backup generators -- when the city lost power a few months ago after a windstorm, gas stations were closed.