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Lower bills. Lights that stay on. Go electric.

Charging a car at home is like paying $1.44 a gallon. Solar trims your bill for decades. A battery keeps the fridge and Wi-Fi running in an outage. See what it adds up to where you live.

See what you'd save

A typical Pennsylvania home could save about $3,540 a year by going electric.

Typical home: the state's average electric bill, gas heat, hot water and stove, and a 25.5 mpg car driven 12,000 miles a year. Built on EIA and EPA data, updated October 15, 2026.

The switches that pay you back

Start with one. Most people start with whatever they're replacing anyway.

A real example

A typical Pennsylvania family could keep about $3,540 a year

That's their electric bill, gas bill and gasoline today, against the same home with an EV, solar panels and electric heat, hot water and cooking. The car alone saves about $1,735 a year; solar up to $1,740.

See your own numbersHow we calculate

Monthly energy spending for a typical Pennsylvania home. Solar assumes your utility credits all the power it makes.

Never sit in the dark again

Storms, heat waves, grid trouble. A battery at home keeps the fridge cold, the Wi-Fi up and your phone charged, with no noise and no fumes.

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Our pick for outage backup

EcoFlow DELTA 3 Max

A big battery at a fair price. Leave the fridge plugged into it and it takes over in a blink when the power cuts out.

  • Fridge, Wi-Fi and lights: about 15 hours
  • Fridge alone: about 18 hours
  • CPAP: 7 nights
  • Phone charges: about 115
$899when we checked*Check price (opens in a new tab)See all our picks

*Price on the maker's US site when we checked on October 15, 2026; prices change often.

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Numbers you can check

No sales pitch. Every figure links to where it came from.

  • Government dataElectricity, gas and gasoline prices from the US Energy Information Administration, refreshed monthly. Average US electricity: 18.2¢ a unit.
  • Real ratingsCar efficiency from EPA tests. Solar output from the national lab's PVWatts model on 10 years of NASA weather.
  • Honest resultsIf a switch doesn't save money in your state, we say so.
  • IndependentNot owned by a carmaker, installer or utility. Some links earn us a commission; it never changes a pick.

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