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This Chevy Cruze Powered a House for Five Days During an Emergency Outage

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This Chevy Cruze Powered a House for Five Days During an Emergency Outage
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If you find yourself in a big storm without backup power ready to go, you’ll likely have a hard time picking up a generator at the store. Those go quickly when the power goes out, and building a genset yourself can get complicated. But if you have the right equipment lying around—which, surprisingly, can include a 2012 Chevy Cruze—you can keep the essentials going for five days (or more).



Two weeks ago, in mid-August, the town of Valparaiso in Indiana was declared a disaster area. The s

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