expiredowl posted Feb 01, 2022 07:57 AM
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expiredowl posted Feb 01, 2022 07:57 AM
Costco Members: EcoFlow River Pro Portable Power Station
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With the Tesla pricing, that's about $778/kWh (without taxes, installation, circuitry, etc), and the Powerwall is not portable, if that matters to some of us.
With the EcoFlow pricing, it's $791/kWh (without taxes and still need something like a power transfer switch installed) at the Costco price or $1,000/kWh (at the EcoFlow retail price of $3,600) and $750/kWh for the extension batteries (at the EcoFlow retail price of $2,699).
I consider the EcoFlow Delta Pro model as a DIY (as someone else has put it) starter version of a home battery backup system, with some other benefits, such as having clean energy for camping and other peripheral uses. To have it fully able to be a home backup system for a decent amount of time (12-24 hours), I will probably need 4 of these linked in series, which might be the max at this point in time. With ~14kWh, that should be more than enough for my essential needs, if I turn off non-essentials. (I'm using around 6-8kWh for essentials per day and about 12-14kWh for a typical day that includes non-essentials, too. This is in San Francisco, so no A/C.)
The Delta Pro can power essential things for at least a few hours in a serious pinch.
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Doesn't seem all that good of a value proposition at $2900 just to do that but, hey I dunno, you can go rescue your EV-owning partner/friends if they run out of juice? lol
This one says it will run a hairdryer for 2 hours. I would not consider this a reliable backup power source alone.
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Seriously, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should
I don't really get off how these guys charge this much for this. Batteries are well under $200/kWh but this thing holds a whopping 3.6kWh and it's nearly $3k!? Obviously it's got the inverter and some other costs in it but it seems like their margin must be insanely high on this.
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