With the Ford Intelligent Backup Power feature along with a 131 kWh battery pack, the Ford F-150 Lighting electric vehicle can power a household for up to 3 days.
Ford F-150 Lightning can supply electricity to the house for 3 days - 1
In order for Ford F-150 Lighting to be able to supply electricity to households, users must upgrade a large-capacity battery pack and an adapter (Photo: Motor1).
The American automaker has received orders for the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck and the first batch of vehicles is expected to be delivered to customers early this year.
The F-150 Lighting starts at around $40,000. Users who want to increase the range of up to 300 miles (about 482 km) per full charge, need to upgrade to a larger capacity battery pack, bringing the price of the car up from 72,474 USD (about 1.64 USD). billions dong).
Recently, the American automaker introduced the Ford Intelligent Backup Power feature on the F-150 Lightning, allowing it to provide enough power for a family to use for up to three days, through an extended battery pack.
Specifically, Ford has partnered with Sunrun, a solar energy company, to turn its electric pickup truck like a generator for the home.
With a 131 kWh battery pack, the Ford F-150 Lightning can deliver up to 9.6 kW of power. More importantly, based on average home usage, which in the US is about 30 kWh per day, the above battery pack can provide all the energy for a US household for up to three days.
Ford F-150 Lightning can supply electricity to the house for 3 days - 2
Ford's new feature helps users reduce their home electricity bills (Image: Motorauthority).
The condition to be able to use the F-150 Lightning car as a generator is that the user will have to install Sunrun's home-integrated system, including a power inverter, a starter battery pack, and a switch to bidirectional current. Thanks to this, the vehicle can be volume and supply power in many different ways.
Ford's director of energy and charging services, Matt Stover, said: "Partnering with Sunrun aims to leverage their expertise to bring green energy to even more customers, helping to turn the vehicle into a source of power. large-scale electricity storage and these features could in the future help accelerate the development of a less carbon-intensive grid."
In addition, Ford's new feature promises to help reduce pressure from the national electricity grid during peak usage times, thereby reducing family electricity bills.