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

wanderingaimlessly wrote:

Reisender 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.

Typically keeping a house powered with basic needs like the fridge, furnace motor and some lights would use around 7 kwh per day. A Tesla Cybertruck with a 200kwh battery should keep that going for a couple weeks or more.

A furnace???? what does it burn? Sunshine and lollipops?

More seriously, I see the Tesla and other BEV's as a rehashing of an old event.
Modern transportation/ post animal powered,,,
1840's - 1940's Steam, best usage in large heavy applications like railroads and shipping because of heavy equipment used to control it, and bulky fuel such as wood and coal.
It did not lend itself well to smaller private conveyance usage, with the notable exception of the Steemer type automobiles which used kerosene as fuel.

ICE began to unseat steam around 1900, and still reigns as the primary means of private conveyance. Ease and portability of refueling being the key advantage.

Electric vehicles began common usage in early 1900's but power had to be provided to rail usage by either wired systems (Streetcar/subway trains), or by large diesel electric systems. Which like todays battery powered units relied on another source of primary energy.
But unless you have an independent power source, you are still relying on carbon based fuels. And the batteries still have many of the same issues of weight and fuel storage the old steam powered units had.

Your Tesla/Bolt is the modern Stanley Steamer, an interesting toy, but will be a rare relic within a few years.
I do believe some other technology will come along, and replace them all, be it hydrogen or some nuclear version.
But for now, buy and fondle your soon to be oddity.

Depends where you live I suppose. Furnaces usually burn natural or propane here. Electricity on the other hand comes mostly from hydro, Wind, geothermal, biomass etc. Painting everything with a broad brush doesn’t really work.

Not to many manufacturers are planning on developing ice vehicles past about 2035. Get em while you can. :). Lol.