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Re:Tesla's batteries aim to rework the math for electric car... by martythemaniak on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:52PM (#23182912)
The cybertruck should be able to do this "out of the box". It has a 240V output (though they did not reveal the amperage, it must be at least 30), so your house should not care whether it's running off a small generator or the truck, nor should the truck care whether it's running a tool or a house.

People have tried to estimate the truck's battery size from it's drag coefficient (via it's watts per mile consumption) and it seems the 500 miles version should have like 150-160kWh of storage. You can run your house for a long time on that.

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Re:Tesla's batteries aim to rework the math for electric car... by bogdanu on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:43PM (#23184388)
150kWh it my my montly consumption for my apartment. Sure, you use more on a house, but would be more than enough for a serious outage in the country side (like my parents have in the winter, lasting even 2-3 days)
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