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I'm interested to see if this leads to people living in places without power and using their truck as the sole source of electricity. If you have a small cabin
by onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago
I'm interested to see if this leads to people living in places without power and using their truck as the sole source of electricity.
If you have a small cabin with no a/c, wood heat, and a propane stove - your house is going to use hardly any power compared to your truck. It would barely make a difference.
- moralestapia 5y agoBut how would you charge the truck?
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoAt a charging station? A lot of people do a lot of their charging not at home already - at least in cities. Presumably this could / will be true in rural areas, too.
- Aperocky 5y agoThat will probably not happen. The mentality is extremely different, you do at home what you can, to the maximum.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThis is the opposite of what is usually said about EVs - that most people will charge them at home, overnight.
- oasisbob 5y agoI just can't see this use case. The power draw is probably fine, but the contention for the battery would be a problem. Think, "hey honey, can we put off the Costco trip until next week so we can leave the internet up, and lights on?" Implementing a transfer switch and dummy load just to dump solar generation when your truck is being a truck would feel like a weird exercise.
- noveltyaccount 5y agoI'm interested in towing a small camper and using the truck battery for lights on the camper. That would upen up more camp site flexibility.