Can they tho?

Cybertruck battery is around 123 kilowatt hours. Your average fridge takes 4 kilowatt hours over the course of a day.

Theoretically one cybertruck with enough extension cords and splitters, could power a handful of fridges for a couple days. Power fans or small AC units. And still have enough to get back to it charging station.

It's better than nothing, but you're also adding to the burden of rescue workers in the area. They already have to feed and take care of the residents, they don't want to have to take care of people providing mobile batteries.

If you live within a couple dozen miles of the affected areas it might be useful. Any farther than that and you're just going to be a burden.

There's a dozen organizations already set up to do exactly that the guy would just have to detach himself from his identity of cyber truck owner for 10 seconds and he could actually help.

I don't think it deserves dunking.

Feels like its just consumerist quick-fix nonsense. Even - hypothetically speaking - if you could get a hundred of these clumsy fire-prone death traps into Ashville and hooked up to the grid, why would you not do this with portable generators designed to provide power instead of a bunch of vehicles that would exhaust half their charge just reaching the location.

It reminds me of Musk's own brand of grandstanding. "Don't worry, we're going to invent a personal submarine to save some trapped cave divers! Don't worry, we're going to build tunnels all through the bedrock of your neighborhood to provide mass transit! Don't worry, we're going to end censorship once I buy Twitter and rebrand it The Everything App."

The Cybertruck obsession and common sense that's detached from reality is obviously concerning

It's not the obsession with your toy truck so much as the endless self-promotion and hustler-inspired consumerism. This could have been anything properly branded and promoted - electric trucks, cryptocurrency, Rick & Morty surplus apparel - and you'd have guys like this insisting it was a panacea. Just whatever's trending on social media.

"Hey, maybe Chappell Roan and Moo Deng can hold a benefit concert" sure to fill the space soon enough.

Yes, I know