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Correct. Which is bonkers. Honestly they should at the very least create a way to island the batteries such that during outages ONLY the truck provides battery storage and power.

That is correct. You need the 3V Gateway or other battery system if you want your solar panels to stay online during outages. Otherwise they must shut down within 300ms of a grid outage.

I'm a scientist and an engineer. I feel like when all Right, I forget people live in civilization most of the time :D So the cool thing with my setup is that it allows me to go fully off-grid for extended periods of time. I live in a forest in New Hampshire, which means I can run my house...

But that busbar is independent from the 200A path from the grid to the main service. I was just looking at the gateway box itself and it's isolated from the load and line sides so it might still be the case. Otherwise, what happens if the truck is at 100% charge? it can't take ANY charge at...

Would've been nice for my installer to know this. He even talked to Tesla support and they said they weren't sure but to go with 7kW just in case. I unfortunately can't split my inverters because their output is combined upstream, and splitting them would require a new emergency disconnect...

TLDR; scroll down to see a 15kW dual inverter solar panel array stay online during a power outage thanks to Powershare The story: March 2024, I took delivery of my truck. It was obviously a very early build with vin in the 4xxx so I knew I was gonna have to work out the early adopter kinks...

I had a fun experience last month as well. Around the middle of the video, this dude in a tiny Ford Focus got on the left passing lane on the highway and held his middle finger up until I saw him. He then tried to speed off. When he realized his mistake, he got very shy. Probably shouldn't...

Yeah sorry about not continuing it, I didn't much care to see it beyond that. So this is still the same 250kW capped supercharger and I wasn't expecting to see the charge stay at higher power for longer, but rather wanted to see if the curve was smoother now in the cold, and the answer is yes...

Much smoother curve in the cold, using v4 chargers (still capped at 250kW)

I agree, having a gas backup generator is unfortunately still a necessity. The reason I'm bummed about this is that the solution would be for the PowerShare protocol/software (using the 3v Gateway) to support the AC input of a solar panel system, just like a Powerwall setup does today. We were...

I'm in a fairly rural part of NH. My closest neighbor is far enough that even if they were running a generator I wouldn't really hear it. But either way, probably not me, no.

All generators produce electricity ;) What do you mean exactly? Lots of my neighbors use generators, though none that I know have bidirectionally charging EVs yet.

Ah ok. Yeah, I ran my house using just the nema 14-50 outlet, hooked up to my 50A transfer switch + interlock kit, but only for a few hours at a time. I've since gotten the PowerShare gateway installed so I'm no longer capped at 12 hours, I was just always curious if it had no cooldown period...

Does the truck require a manual restart every 12 hours for the 240v outlet? Does it need to "cool off" or it just continues uninterrupted?

Yeah I'm thinking of remaking this one with thinner wood and better supports, I might just stain it properly as well

First off, don't tell me what to do with my life, please. I get enough people on the road and internet telling me that spending money on the Cybertruck was a mistake, I don't also need Cybertruck owners telling me the same. If you don't like how I spend my time and money, stay in MA. I live free...

A little unconventional, but I set out to build my own cargo divider just because. It was a quick prototype that I ended up sanding and staining as I won't have time to build a more "proper" one for the time being. I think it turned out pretty good! It's made of white pine (though any softwood...

@Cybertechnical first off, awesome writeup (the solar charging piece in particular). I think that given the current market of consumer grade hybrid inverters/battery banks, this is close to as good as one could get to decent off-grid charging. I definitely would have hoped a battery bank with a...

To add to the data points, here are the first 6000k miles on my AWD CT on stock all terrain tires. It tells the story a bit better to split wh/mi by speed and temperature. I'll have some great data after this first winter here in NH, and maybe I switch to the all season tires and get another...

This is awesome. We have a similar setup that we use when we fell trees more than 100 feet from the house (as that's the longest extension cord we can use without breaking code). The only difference is ours is a Boss 16ton (20ton gas equivalent) splitter so we use it for fairly large (green)...