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

Hi, we had our power out for 3 1/2 days as well. My 3500W Champion portable generator ran 80 hrs non stop to power my 3400sf house as normal. Fridge, 15cf deep freeze, satellite TV, internet, WIFI, propane furnace, water well, lights, etc. The only thing we couldn't do was run the furnace and well pump at the same time.

The only problem I had was driving 50 miles round trip to find gas. As someone else mentioned, if the gas station doesn't have power they aren't pumping gas.

We ran our house on about 3KWh. The Ford truck discussed here should power my house 24/7 for at least 60 days.

:) Hi, we had our power out for 3 1/2 days. My Yamaha 2400 portable generator took care of two refrigerators and some lights. Transfer switch on order. Gas fire place works with two "D" cell batteries.

Reisender wrote:

time2roll wrote:
Rather have Hummer, Rivian or Bollinger. Any of which could power that tiny home at some level.

I’d be surprised if all three of those don’t have inverters producin 120 and 240 volts.

Yes and CT should also. I don't care for the CT look or usability.

time2roll wrote:
Rather have Hummer, Rivian or Bollinger. Any of which could power that tiny home at some level.

I’d be surprised if all three of those don’t have inverters producin 120 and 240 volts.

Rather have Hummer, Rivian or Bollinger. Any of which could power that tiny home at some level.

larry barnhart wrote:
We live on the Columbia river in Wenatchee wa and have a dam below and above Wenatchee. Low cost power for us. chevman

And makes power 24,7 365 days a year.

I think Only people tryin to find faults with clean energy are people makin money from fosil fuels.

We live on the Columbia river in Wenatchee wa and have a dam below and above Wenatchee. Low cost power for us. chevman

wanderingaimlessly wrote:

rlw999 wrote:


My energy doesn't come from the national average, in my state around 70% of our power comes from renewables (including large hydro). And the state-wide goal is for all utilities to be carbon neutral by 2030 and free of fossil fuels by 2045.

If you think your state's not generating enough power from renewables, talk to your legislators. But EV's are so much more energy efficient that studies show that an EV is cleaner than an gasoline powered car even when the electricity is generated from coal.

And ALL of it is made possible by the carbon fueled machines that mine the ore, the heavy metals used in the batteries, and drill for the petroleum used for everything from the plastics in your keyboard to the refined metals in the wires carrying your wannabe "Clean energy".

If we have to wait for everything to be converted to electric before starting to migrate to EVs, then no one could ever drive an EV. But even heavy mining equipment is being electrified (much of it is stationary or follows fixed routes)

The time to move to an alternative fuel source is while petroleum is relatively cheap. No one (well few) are saying that every use of petroleum needs to end, moving to EV's makes petroleum more available and cheaper for manufacturing products that need it.

OK Wa state has about 60% 0f the potential water power in the US, but they have not built a new plant in almost 50 years, but they are building new carbon plants.
wa state power
Hydro would be wonderful, but in much of the world, terrain wont support it. Even tidally many areas dont move enough to work well. Your home of Wa has about a 12 foot tidal rise and fall, Florida is about 1.5 to 2 feet.
A lot more hydro would help, but greenies fight every new project, and given a little more time, they will be shutting down solar farms for shading too many large areas as well as wind and the effects on birds as well as the sonic issues some areas are already resisting their usages due to.

Solar, wind will get the same activism halting their projects, that are already stopping new nuclear and hydro.
These same people will always have to oppose something. To believe anything else is nieve.

Again. Regional. Big brush. There are many new hydro projects as well as pumped hydro happening in the world. That and wind...and solar...and geothermal...and gravity. Grids will continue to get cleaner. But hang onto that dream of living in the 50’s.

rlw999 wrote:


My energy doesn't come from the national average, in my state around 70% of our power comes from renewables (including large hydro). And the state-wide goal is for all utilities to be carbon neutral by 2030 and free of fossil fuels by 2045.

If you think your state's not generating enough power from renewables, talk to your legislators. But EV's are so much more energy efficient that studies show that an EV is cleaner than an gasoline powered car even when the electricity is generated from coal.

And ALL of it is made possible by the carbon fueled machines that mine the ore, the heavy metals used in the batteries, and drill for the petroleum used for everything from the plastics in your keyboard to the refined metals in the wires carrying your wannabe "Clean energy".

If we have to wait for everything to be converted to electric before starting to migrate to EVs, then no one could ever drive an EV. But even heavy mining equipment is being electrified (much of it is stationary or follows fixed routes)

The time to move to an alternative fuel source is while petroleum is relatively cheap. No one (well few) are saying that every use of petroleum needs to end, moving to EV's makes petroleum more available and cheaper for manufacturing products that need it.

OK Wa state has about 60% 0f the potential water power in the US, but they have not built a new plant in almost 50 years, but they are building new carbon plants.
wa state power
Hydro would be wonderful, but in much of the world, terrain wont support it. Even tidally many areas dont move enough to work well. Your home of Wa has about a 12 foot tidal rise and fall, Florida is about 1.5 to 2 feet.
A lot more hydro would help, but greenies fight every new project, and given a little more time, they will be shutting down solar farms for shading too many large areas as well as wind and the effects on birds as well as the sonic issues some areas are already resisting their usages due to.

Solar, wind will get the same activism halting their projects, that are already stopping new nuclear and hydro.
These same people will always have to oppose something. To believe anything else is nieve.

wanderingaimlessly wrote:


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.

Gee Whiz Norway seems to have over 50% BEV.

The tipping point may be around 5%. We are at 3.3%.

Do you really think GM is going to keep all the ice cars?