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

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.

rlw999 wrote:
The article later says "Tons of comments poured in, including a 240v outlet,...", but Musk didn't reply to that, even if it's true, it's likely to be an added cost option, a 6KW 240VAC inverter would probably add a few thousand dollars to the truck.

Maybe 2k but I think the cyber truck uses 3 phase AC power, so it might just be the cost of an outlet.

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.

RoyJ wrote:
Well fellas, this concept just might work if say, each truck has a charger in the driveway, that's fed by powerlines, stepped down from high voltage lines, which in turn fed by substations, which themselves fed by a power plant. Oh wait...

Dreading the day you have to compete to reserve a boondocking spot in the Bridger National Forest with 3000 watts of solar at 100 VDC installed for ONLY $300 a day, just so Kali types can see something outside Orange county.

Well fellas, this concept just might work if say, each truck has a charger in the driveway, that's fed by powerlines, stepped down from high voltage lines, which in turn fed by substations, which themselves fed by a power plant. Oh wait...

RoyJ wrote:
Maybe a dumb question - how do you charge the truck? From work / supercharger on the way home?

And if so, that means the house is unpowered during time away from home. Factor in charging costs and premature battery wear, wonder if it's actually cheaper.

I'm all for EVs for their intended purpose - commuting. But this is stretching it.

You charge it up with electricity produced by burning lots and lots of fossil fuels, or heaven forbid, nuclear fuels.

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.

That "article" sure is scant on details, and I think it's reading too much into his Tweet. The tweet shows the cybertruck pulling a fifthwheel style RV and asks "Can I plug my tiny house into the Cybertruck to power it?" and Musk replied "Yes".

So it's not even clear what he's talking about, for all we know, he means that the cybertruck will supply 12VDC power to that RV.

The article later says "Tons of comments poured in, including a 240v outlet,...", but Musk didn't reply to that, even if it's true, it's likely to be an added cost option, a 6KW 240VAC inverter would probably add a few thousand dollars to the truck.

I thought you were referring to powering your house after the recent electric grid fiasco in Texas.
It would give a new meaning to a neighbor wanting to borrow your truck for the day. :)

I would think this is meant to be used as emergency backup power. Or for powering an RV when dry camping etc. Cool.