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It appears to be a way to get a home battery without actually buying a home battery, because you can get a tax deduction on the work vehicle? It's not a great

It appears to be a way to get a home battery without actually buying a home battery, because you can get a tax deduction on the work vehicle? It's not a great idea when you could just get a home battery without blowing money on the integrated pickup truck.

tzs 3y ago
For many it would be the other way around. They buy the truck because the want a truck. The integrated home powering is a nice extra option. I’d like my next vehicle to be an EV. A truck is a little big for my needs (my cars have all been Nissan Sentras, Honda Civics, or Honda CR-Vs) but I’m in a low density area where there is no place something bigger would cause problems, and unlike an ICE truck an EV truck does not have a ridiculous cost per mile so I would be OK with a truck except for the higher upfront cost. At the initial pricing they said they were aiming for an F-150 Lightning with just the consumer EV rebate plus the add ons for home powering would have been cheaper than getting an EV that doesn’t power the house plus a Tesla Powerwall. If I had to buy a car right now I’d probably get a Chevy Bolt and deal with house power with a propane powered generator. Propane instead of gasoline because propane doesn’t go bad after long storage. A generator is not as nice as a battery because my loads during a power would be mostly intermittent. I’d either have to start and stop the generator a lot or waste a lot of fuel idling. Thus I’d prefer a battery system but they are a lot more expensive than a generator, largely because you need enough battery capacity for the whole outage. With a generator you just need enough fuel storage for the outage or a willingness to occasionally go buy more fuel during the outage. It might be reasonable to do a mixed approach. A battery with enough capacity to handle a few hours plus a generator that could be used to charge the battery. I’ve not yet seriously analyzed this.

tzs 3y ago

For many it would be the other way around. They buy the truck because the want a truck. The integrated home powering is a nice extra option. I’d like my next vehicle to be an EV. A truck is a little big for my needs (my cars have all been Nissan Sentras, Honda Civics, or Honda CR-Vs) but I’m in a low density area where there is no place something bigger would cause problems, and unlike an ICE truck an EV truck does not have a ridiculous cost per mile so I would be OK with a truck except for the higher upfront cost. At the initial pricing they said they were aiming for an F-150 Lightning with just the consumer EV rebate plus the add ons for home powering would have been cheaper than getting an EV that doesn’t power the house plus a Tesla Powerwall. If I had to buy a car right now I’d probably get a Chevy Bolt and deal with house power with a propane powered generator. Propane instead of gasoline because propane doesn’t go bad after long storage. A generator is not as nice as a battery because my loads during a power would be mostly intermittent. I’d either have to start and stop the generator a lot or waste a lot of fuel idling. Thus I’d prefer a battery system but they are a lot more expensive than a generator, largely because you need enough battery capacity for the whole outage. With a generator you just need enough fuel storage for the outage or a willingness to occasionally go buy more fuel during the outage. It might be reasonable to do a mixed approach. A battery with enough capacity to handle a few hours plus a generator that could be used to charge the battery. I’ve not yet seriously analyzed this.