it says 3 days at full use, and up to 10 days at rationing for essentials on a full charge.
3-5 days is the average bad power outage these days here after storms. So, if i can run my well and not lose my freezer, that's a win.
I did the math on the whole home 22kw unit and it just doesn't make sense. It needs to be run once a month, it consumes a TON of fuel. about $40 a day if my math was correct. I need a larger cfm meter installed by the gas company, hard-lines run in the house, etc etc etc. So, it will COST me to just have it and maintain it.
I had 9500 miles on my truck when the pandemic hit and i started to WFH, March 12 2020. Now, i have 11,200. And, my wife drove my truck a bit (she didn't stop going in until May or june). Working from home really takes a cut off miles. So, i can target one of the lowest mileage offers they may have to save some cash, still have a truck for doing truck things, AND get some backup power option. That sounds like a pretty big win. The truck comes with the home charging unit (just need to pay an electrician to wire it up).
The big question is, will it fit in the garage. I need to see how much longer than the taco it is. I have the 4 door long bed which comes in at 225 inches.
We'll have to see what the price of the truck is. The prelim numbers have a huge range from 39 to 90k. My taco priced at 46k and i'm in it for 349/m lease with 12k /year mileage allotment and i put basically nothing down (covered taxes/reg) If i can score a 10k or lower mileage lease, that may save a few bucks. I don't think i want to buy it and deal with it after 5 years.
So, then i'm thinking i can get a solar bank too. Or may do a whole roof of solar, but i really don't want to do that until i do the roof. but, that's at least 10-15 years out (hopefully).
I'm thinking i can probably get about 600/900 watts of portable panels i can just setup in an emergency and wire in to a charge controller that connects to the batteries in the truck somehow. More research to do here. That should give me enough power to run the well and keep the food cold for a few days so long as it's sunny. I have great southern exposure most of the day.