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by 15155 290 days ago
How about an electric vehicle, a few dozen kW of solar, and a drilled well?
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Slightly better, but how do you get parts to repair your vehicle or anything else?

There's virtually no such thing as "off-grid", no such thing as a human being who lives totally unreliant on people around them in the modern age, unless you can carry everything you own in both hands, and can survive with nothing else. And there's damn few people out there living like that.

“No man is an island”
> How about an electric vehicle, a few dozen kW of solar, and a drilled well?

It's the same issue, you're still dependent on outside resources (especially if we're being realistic and understand that everything will break and need repaired/maintenance/replacement eventually), you're just switching which resources you're dependent on.

EVs will still need some maintenance. Are you planning on making your own tires?