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The F-150 is a great power bank that comes with a very useful set of 4 tires and a steering wheel for a truly portable charging experience.
by tekno45 10mo ago
The F-150 is a great power bank that comes with a very useful set of 4 tires and a steering wheel for a truly portable charging experience.
- malfist 10mo agoI justified the lightning purchase to my partner by pointing out having an equivalent whole house battery backup in Tesla power walls would be more expensive than the truck
- tenuousemphasis 10mo agoHave you tried supplying power to your home yet?
- markdown 10mo agoShhh, his wife might read this.
- malfist 10mo agoMy only fear is that when I pass away, he'll sell my telescopes for what I said they cost. Jk jk, he bought me my most expensive one
- malfist 10mo agoWe've not hooked up the transfer switch yet but we have ran a lot of extension cords during an ice storm last year and kept all our aquariums going, all 700 gallons of them
- eleventen 10mo agoIf you’ve had it for that long without installing the crucial part of what you described above as a major selling point, I think that would have been useful to volunteer in the original comment lol. The extension cord thing was interesting too, but “I sold my partner on a feature that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth to set up” is super relevant to discussion!
- malfist 10mo agoWe haven't needed to yet. Our primary concern are those aquariums and it worked wonderfully for them when we needed it. Much better than running through over a hundred dollars a day in propane to keep them running, and the truck parks in an insulated garage so no cords to a generator through a window letting the cold in
- brianwawok 10mo agoTrick is the power wall will be there in 10 years. The truck may be traded in at 4. Car trade in speed is what makes that math not work.
- tekno45 10mo agoso the power wall can't be traded in and doesn't move. Still seems more useful.
- frumper 10mo agoTrading in your new car at 4 years old sounds like bad math no matter what car you buy.
- km144 10mo agoHave you seen the prices of pre-owned Honda/Toyota sedans that are less than 5 years old? There are absolutely cars out there where trading in your new car after 3-4 years can make sense depending on the cost of the car, the depreciation curve, and whether you want to always be driving a relatively new car. Of course it's almost always going to be a better value proposition to drive the car for 10 years if you can, but that can still depend on depreciation.
- behringer 10mo agoThe math doesn't work when you calculate the same thing based on buying low mileage used cars or leases. You're throwing large amounts of equity away every 4 years. Also electric cars get killed on the depreciation curve.
- throwaway2037 10mo ago> Also electric cars get killed on the depreciation curve. I have heard this a couple of times now, and I believe it. Is the cause battery wear or pure demand (buyers don't want used EVs for various non technical reasons)?
- kimos 10mo agoA local couple runs a hot food stall at outdoor markets all over the city by backing theirs up to the stall and plugging in all the kitchen things they need into the outlets in the bed.
- zeristor 10mo agoThe number of outdoor market stalls I’ve seen with diesel generators, noisy, smelly and polluting. Happy to see people using all electric.
- xnx 10mo ago131,000,000 mWh