Ford F-150 Lightning Can Keep the Lights On When Your Power Goes Out

The electric F-150 will be able to double as a home power station when it’s not doing truck things.

When the electric Ford F-150 Lightning isn’t blasting to 60 mph in a claimed 4.5 seconds or doing truck things with up to 10,000 pounds in tow, it will be able to act as a knight in painted aluminum in the event of a natural disaster or power outage by feeding its stored energy back into owners’ homes.

In previous experiments, we’ve powered a house and also fed some juice to a Ford Mustang Mach-E using the 7.6 kW available from the bed-mounted plugs of the F-150 Hybrid. 

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