The Ford F-150 Lightning has just barely arrived on the market, yet I've already heard a few stories of the Lightning powering people's needs in the event of power outages. The first I heard about
A Ford exec was happy to join in on the fun as well and offered a little pun in response to Westley’s tweet.One person asked how long Westley thought he’d be able to run his house on the Lightning, a question many were surely wondering. Naturally, not knowing how long they’d be without power , the most logical thing was to only use the Lightning to power essentials. Also, Westley did not have the vehicle-to-home setup Ford is offering in partnership with Sunrun.
We currently only have essentials plugged in. We are not running the A/C. We used about 10% on day 1, so my guess is if I let it go to 10%, I can go about 8-9 days at this rate. It would be less if it was powering the whole home. I’m pretty impressed how much we can power though!that’s a great question, we don’t have the setup for that currently since we are moving.
Looking at Westley’s Twitter timeline, just a couple of days before Hurricane Ian hit, he was having plenty of fun with the young F-150 Lightning in other ways. He got plenty of double-takes at the airport when loading up the giant Mega Frunk with luggage …
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