Their cover photo shows a Tesla Powerwall – that’s a massive battery you can buy and loop into your home’s power to store charge, and it’s at its most useful when paired with solar panels, to create a potentially self-sufficient power loop.

This means your solar panels can power your home, but also store excess charge in your Powerwall, which can then use this charge to keep your car topped up when you plug it in.

It’s a bit of a dream scenario, but it requires a pretty high buy-in cost to set up, between the panels, the battery and the car itself.

There are still quite a lot of environmental factors that play into how well it works – @Tesla_GTownTX seems to be in the Texas area, which would normally get loads of sunshine to bank plenty of power, but the ongoing cold snap has probably slowed that to a trickle.

The X user jokingly captioned their post: “First time I’ve had a bill within the last 12 months. This sucks.” And people have replied with plenty of jokes – including the Tiger King meme, where Joe Exotic says: “I am never going to financially recover from this.”

One user replied: “That’s horrible. My condolences.” While another joked: “Damn my dude post a GoFund Me the community will rally around you I’m sure.”

According to Forbes, these Tesla Powerwalls can cost you well over $11,000 per battery, and the more you have, the more electricity you are likely to save. If you want to reduce this price, you’d have to buy five batteries for $40,500, which amounts to a still-gargantuan $8,100 per battery.

So, while it may seem like the man lucked out on having such a low bill, he certainly didn’t get off easy when it comes to making a large payment.