Batteries from wreaked or scrapped vehicles are finding their way into alternate power systems for off grid use. Some systems can be purchased from a salvage yard that are a fraction of the cost of lead acid battery system.
Image from article, Nissan Leaf cutaway showing part of the battery in 2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_battery
So look at your local automotive salvage yards, for unlucky Hybrid cars. The battery systems from these cars can be large enough to power your entire house, from a single pack!
Here is a listing of models with onboard batteries by make, and battery capacity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_battery
I was surprised at the length of this list, I thought there were only a few electric vehicle models out there. here are the full electric models:
Addax MT: 10-15 kWh
Audi e-tron: 95 kWh
BMW i3: 22–33 kWh
BYD e6: 60–82 kWh
Chevrolet Bolt / Opel Ampera-e: 60 kWh
Citroen C-Zero / Peugeot iOn (i.MIEV): 16 kWh (2010) / 14,5 kWh (2013-)
Fiat 500e: 24 kWh
Ford Focus Electric: 23 kWh (2012), 33.5 kWh (2018)
Honda Clarity (2018): 25.5 kWh
Hyundai Kona Electric: 39.2–64 kWh
Hyundai Ioniq Electric: 28 kWh
Kia Soul EV: 27 kWh
Kia Niro EV: 39.2–64 kWh
Jaguar I-Pace: 90 kWh
Nissan Leaf I: 24–30 kWh
Nissan Leaf II: 24-60 kWh
Mercedes-Benz EQ C: 80 kWh
Mitsubishi i-MIEV: 16 kWh
Renault Fluence Z.E.: 22 kWh
Renault Twizy: 6 kWh
Renault Zoe: 22 kWh (2012), 41 kWh (2016)
Smart electric drive II: 16.5 kWh
Smart electric drive III: 17.6 kWh
Tesla Model S: 60–100 kWh
Tesla Model X: 60–100 kWh
Tesla Model 3: 50–70 kWh
Tesla Model Y: 50–70 kWh
Toyota RAV4 EV: 27.4 kWh (1997), 41.8 kWh (2012)
Volkswagen e-Golf Mk7: 24–36 kWh
Volkswagen e-Up!: 18.7 kWh
Rimac C_Two: 120 kWh
There is an equally long list in Hybrids, usually with a slightly smaller battery pack, because they have an onboard gasoline engine too.
I am moving off grid myself, and I had decided that a battery with 24,000 watts (24 KW) is large enough to run my house. SO you can see that some of these packs are large enough to do that job. Eventually, I would like to see about 50 KW on my battery bank.
I will begin with 2500 watts of solar panels, and 1500 watts of wind power. With my average sun here I can expect 20,000 watts a day (20KW) from the panels; and with my average wind velocity locally, I can expect about 12,000 watts of wind power So while generating 32 KW per day, I will be able to fully charge my batteries daily, plus run the house on the excess. A reasonable load on my charging sources will be 14 KW for AC / Heat Leaving me 18 KW of battery charge. another 3KW will be needed for refrigeration and freezer power; leaving 15 KW excess for battery charge. If the sun is blocked by clouds, the average wind increases, to where the wind generator will be making 24 KW, which will handle the full house load plus a 4kw charge on the batteries.
The single largest advantage of harvesting vehicle batteries from wreaked cars, in on fixed service, LiIon batteries should last six times as long as lead acid batteries. These are 30 + year battery packs, so they are worth a little trouble. I have an off grid friend in Florida, who bought one of the smaller Tesla batteries almost ten years ago, and is still happy with the system. Some of the battery packs can be purchased for $700; so at that cost, electric power storage would only run $70 per year in a decade, or $24 per Year over the life of the battery system! $2 a Month is not very expensive electric power storage costs....
So there are ways to save cash while moving off grid, so get creative. Any good system will have several different charging sources, to bridge any input power gaps.