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My car is basically one big gas-powered generator that has the benefit of also not requiring a functional power station to refill itself.

It has other downsides, obviously. But the notion of "emergency power for your house" isn't really anything special.

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It probably does though, unless you have stockpiled gas. If the power is down to the gas station, the pumps don't work.

My experience with power outages (after big summer storms, not a hurricane thank goodness) has been that my neighborhood is impacted, but that places nearby have power. They tend to restore commercial first, so the supercharger near me is up and running before my house.

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> unless you have stockpiled gas

And are regularly rotating that stockpile, because gasoline has a shelf life measured in months

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You're not wrong but this is commonly exaggerated: half a year with a stabilizer is entirely doable under reasonable conditions.
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If the power is down to the charging station the chargers don't work, this is just as likely as the power being down at the gas station
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Let me know when you figure out how to refill your gas car from solar panels.
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I know you're being snarky, but the chemical process for that exists! It's called the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. You take air, CO2 specifically, and then run the process, which needs electricity, possibly from solar panels, and get diesel/gasoline/jet fuel out the other end! Isn't science amazing?

There are practical issues with it, but it's possible. The question is EROI or Energy Return on Investment. Do you get more energy from it than it took to make it, which unfortunately is not there yet. Shrinking it down to fit into your backyard is an exercise left for the reader.

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If you've got solar panels sufficent to charge a cybertruck then you don't need the cybertruck to power your home. Regular battery systems will work
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Charging an EV from regular household solar panels would take days....

And that's assuming they are sunny days.

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What? My BIL’s installation is small, roughly 8kWp, on sunny days he easily gets 40-50kWh, if not more.
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The Cybertruck has a 123kW battery, so charging it would take days, assuming they are sunny days.
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because solar panels only exist on houses?
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Because EVs are only powered by solar?
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Who said they were?
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Let me know when you invent solar panels that aren’t vulnerable to damaging winds.
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The Ford F150 Powerboost has an optional 7.2 kVA inverter, which I am not sure if there are any other vehicles that can do the same off a gas tank.

I am guessing that one of the use cases is a support unit to charge an EV just enough to get it to a charging station.

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Ford has had options like this forever and it's usually targeted at farmers and ranchers, I think the first I've found was like a 77 or 78 f250 'rancher' that had a generator option on the main belt off the motor. The adds show a guy cutting boards with a skill saw to mend a fence or something.
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I almost purchased that truck, but I needed a higher cargo capacity for my travel trailer, and the added batteries reduced it by 250lbs or so. The ability to plug a travel trailer directly into the truck and run it is really cool.
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Can you actually run home appliances from a regular ICE car? My furnace blower uses ~1800 watts when it kicks in.
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> Can you actually run home appliances from a regular ICE car?

You would need to add an accessory generator (which probably won't fit under the hood) and possibly upgrade the cooling system.

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Genuinely curious what you mean by this.
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