I love this truck (powershare)

[Mal]

Was out on the deck this morning and heard the Roomba in the kitchen beep. Weird. Then I got a notification on my phone that the my CB had switched to powershare mode and was powering the house.

Turns out there is a system-wide power outage in my area (~35k people) - but, because of the Beast, I ain't one of them.

Love this thing.

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[Art138]

Not bad….67% and you have 24hrs left burning an average .5kw. How long did it take for the system to switch to powershare? Mine takes about 3 mins.

 

[Mal]

I keep the truck charged to ~70%, or ~86 kWh in the battery, so I think that '24 hours' was just a guestimate while calibrating. It reserves 20% at the low end, so if there's there is 50% of battery available for backup (70% - 20%), there should be roughly 60kWh (50% of full 123kWh) available. For us, that should be a couple days worth. Depending on usage, of course.

I think it switched over pretty quick this time, maybe 10-15 seconds? I didn't even hear the various UPSes scattered around the house beep. Maybe they've improved the software?

It also waited a few minutes after the grid came back up before switching back to the grid. That seems like a good idea - wait for stability.

 

[Jiggahertz]

Love PowerShare too, really helped during our crazy winter. Mine kicks on really fast, within a few seconds.

 

[txtravwill]

Ug, awesome to see but STILL waiting on that PowerShare software for existing PowerWall/Solar/UWC owners here now over a year. Can't wait as could use the extra capacity for sure.

 

[JGTESLA]

PowerShare makes this truck indispensable. One of my favorite features.

 

[REM]

Cybertruck + PowerShare + Solar = absolute beast of an emergency backup plan

 

[Gaximus]

The only thing I recommend is PSU your modems and wifi equipment, those always take forever to reboot, and seems to give me problems when my HomeKit stuff reboots before the wifi is back up. I've added it to my setup, and in my testing, the wifi/internet never even flickers when it switches over.

 

[Crissa]

Not bad….67% and you have 24hrs left burning an average .5kw.

67% minus a floor of 20% is 47% of the battery; the battery is listed as 123kWh.

( 0.47 * 123 ) / 0.5 = >100 hours.

The average home in the US uses about 30kWh per day, so on average, the battery could sustain a house (given no margins and no attempts to reduce) 4 days. Of course everyone's home is different!

-Crissa

 

[CyberGus]

The only thing I recommend is PSU your modems and wifi equipment, those always take forever to reboot, and seems to give me problems when my HomeKit stuff reboots before the wifi is back up. I've added it to my setup, and in my testing, the wifi/internet never even flickers when it switches over.

I have UPSes on my modem, router, computer, and TiVo

 

[JimBuck333]

67% minus a floor of 20% is 47% of the battery; the battery is listed as 123kWh.

( 0.47 * 123 ) / 0.5 = >100 hours.

The average home in the US uses about 30kWh per day, so on average, the battery could sustain a house (given no margins and no attempts to reduce) 4 days. Of course everyone's home is different!

-Crissa

Was out on the deck this morning and heard the Roomba in the kitchen beep. Weird. Then I got a notification on my phone that the my CB had switched to powershare mode and was powering the house.

Turns out there is a system-wide power outage in my area (~35k people) - but, because of the Beast, I ain't one of them.

Love this thing.

Was out on the deck this morning and heard the Roomba in the kitchen beep. Weird. Then I got a notification on my phone that the my CB had switched to powershare mode and was powering the house.

Turns out there is a system-wide power outage in my area (~35k people) - but, because of the Beast, I ain't one of them.

Love this thing.

The PowerShare feature is what finally made our Cybertruck purchase decision a "yes". The amount of power (up to 11.5 kW) and total energy (95% of 123 kWH) are phenomenal numbers. Any sense of what the conversion efficiency or power consumption of the onboard inverter itself is? (Our installation is complete, but never needed so far...)

I keep the truck charged to ~70%, or ~86 kWh in the battery, so I think that '24 hours' was just a guestimate while calibrating. It reserves 20% at the low end, so if there's there is 50% of battery available for backup (70% - 20%), there should be roughly 60kWh (50% of full 123kWh) available. For us, that should be a couple days worth. Depending on usage, of course.

I think it switched over pretty quick this time, maybe 10-15 seconds? I didn't even hear the various UPSes scattered around the house beep. Maybe they've improved the software?

It also waited a few minutes after the grid came back up before switching back to the grid. That seems like a good idea - wait for stability.

The reserve can apparently be set all the way down to 5% in the app...

 

[Cybertruck 1974]

Can't wait for Powershare to be available for PW owners like myself. Zero lag time. The truck powers the PWs directly and not the house. The PWs power the house directly on a grid out. Smarter. I'd get a PW or Batt back up in addition to CT Powershare.

 

[SeattleTom]

Ug, awesome to see but STILL waiting on that PowerShare software for existing PowerWall/Solar/UWC owners here now over a year. Can't wait as could use the extra capacity for sure.

Agree! I’m also in this Waiting Room and can’t wait.

 

[koolio]

Ug, awesome to see but STILL waiting on that PowerShare software for existing PowerWall/Solar/UWC owners here now over a year. Can't wait as could use the extra capacity for sure.

In the same boat. Should be Q3 this year!

In my area / street, we rarly lose power and if we do it's only been a max of 5 mins each time. We've had 3 power outages (one was due to high winds knocking down a tree that caused a 5 min outage). So, my single PW3 is more than enough to handle backup but it would be nice to have that extra 8 Powerwalls from the CT...just in case! lol

 

[gooshjkc]

I like my PowerShare but the only downside it only powers several things and not the whole house. I wouldn’t say it’s false advertisement but from the videos and pictures it made it sound like that. I still got it because it powers the important things like my refrigerator, microwave, stove, several outlets and some lights. Things I need during a blackout.

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