The crazy thing about the home backup is for the extended range it has a 131kwh usable battery. From tesla a powerwall is 13.5kwh for $8,400... that means the F150 is essentially an $80,000 powerwall, and you can also drive it.
I live full time off grid with my lightning Pro ER. I have a 12kw solar system with a 16kw of inverter power and 1040ah of battery storage. It’s been a change but I love it.
Great video, although im also would love to have a immaculate engineering of a Rivian and the futuristic cyber truck but im only able to afford a gas f-150 XLT, I’m aiming for a lariat lighting and i think it worth ever penny. Remember ford has the experienced of engineering trucks.
So in essence, you had a 4.5kWh (50% of 9kWh) battery system. So you have just increased your battery storage by 98kWh. That's more than 21 times more. Now all you need to do is increase that solar array so even in winter when all you get is about 10% of the max to provide you just the few kilowatts for your family of 4, and in the summer when it's over producing, you now have the size of storage to collect all the excess.
Before we bought the truck, we upgraded our lead acid batteries to a 15kwh lithium pack. At some point we may extend our solar array but for now we have other high priority projects with our home budget. But yes, it’s pretty cool to see expanding power options!
Seeing the Cybertruck is out now, you might have made the best choice. I was surprised it had less range (and battery capacity) than the Lightning. I thought being two years later it would be way ahead of the other trucks, but only had has 10% more towing capacity and better 0-60 (not something most truck buyers are looking for). Does look like it's from 2040 after the nuclear war though...
Wouldn’t it be quicker to buy an atv and plow that long of a drive way instead of snow blowing then stopping putting. New battery then back at when one tank on atv or not even done
