Man powers his entire house using just one EV battery
Published on Jan 28, 2026 at 9:24 PM (UTC+4)
by Daisy Edwards
Last updated on Jan 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Emma Matthews
A man decided to power his entire house using just one humongous EV battery.
A garage tinkerer took a BYD EV battery and paired it with a solar inverter to create a huge home energy storage setup.
The result was a working system that could make around 7,800 watts while reporting battery health data in real time.
It is the sort of project that looks wild, and it ended up being as crazy as you would think.
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A man tried to power his entire house using just one EV battery
The heart of this YouTuber’s crazy tech build is an EV battery pack with far more capacity than most typical home storage units, because it is a BYD EV battery.
In this case, the battery is rated at 60kWh, which puts it in a different league from the normal wall-mounted batteries many homes rely on for backup power.
To make it usable in a house, he matched the battery with a special high-voltage solar inverter.
The YouTuber mounted the high-voltage inverter directly onto the battery, making it neat and compact, even if his long-term plan might be a more permanent installation on the wall.
Then came the crazy part of his experiment: making it safe.
Because EV batteries are not meant to plug straight into a home inverter, he had to build in protection.
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This could be a crazy plan
Power is only half the story with the EV battery; communication is what makes the system behave like a proper battery, not a science experiment.
To bridge the gap between an EV battery and an inverter that expects a home storage unit, he used a battery emulator setup to make it work properly.
Once configured, the system came to life with the telltale clicks and safety checks.
He then tested the operation by forcing a charge state and watched it hit roughly 7,800 watts, while a small display reported useful info like battery temperature, charge percentage, and network details.
The biggest takeaway for the YouTuber was the value of his experiment.
This battery had only about 100 cycles through it, and he says he paid $1,650, which makes the money tempting for anyone comfortable with the engineering and safety requirements.
He also pointed out that you do not need a massive crane-sized battery to power your entire house, since smaller 20 to 40kWh EV batteries can be a better fit for most homes.
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