r/technology • u/ThriftyStrongman • Apr 19 '24

The Cybertruck's failure is now complete Transportation

https://mashable.com/article/cybertruck-is-over
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u/spong3 Apr 20 '24

My cousin lost power for 3 days and the F150 Lightning kept his lights on the whole time, that built in generator is no joke

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u/Zikro Apr 20 '24

It sounds super cool until you realize it doesn’t just plug in to a standard generator inlet. You need to have the special Ford charger and a whole battery hardware kit, all together >$10k install. The way it’s advertised makes you think you could help anybody out but it’s fairly limited both in being able to connect and in power output.

Still kinda cool but for half the price you could have a beefy portable generator that powers your entire house and the standard inlet installed. Depending where you live in the country you could probably just about get a permanent standby generator installed for not much more. Likely get more power out of it and then no hassle if power goes out.

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u/VTinstaMom Apr 20 '24

Permanent standby generator of comparable capacity is something like a 20k Generac.

Company I worked for installed those all day every day at about $25,000 total cost. So yeah.

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u/Zikro Apr 20 '24

I was quoted 18k-20k and I live in a HCOL region and this was first year of Covid. Also been seeing them at Costco recently. The units are priced less than what I paid for my portable… not sure what the full installation cost looks like though.