{"id":39185,"date":"2022-12-28T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39185"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:42:48","slug":"ford-lightning-owner-powers-home-essentials-for-2-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39185","title":{"rendered":"Ford Lightning owner powers home essentials for 2 days and still had battery left in the tank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thousands of Canadian residents awoke Christmas ay with no electricity after a massive winter storm swept across the area. One southern Ontario resident was able to keep the lights on for almost two days after plugging in his Ford F-150 Lightning<\/a>, and still had plenty of battery left after the power came back on.<\/p>\n

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Ford Lightning powers home after a severe winter storm<\/h2>\n

When Ford released the F-150 Lightning electric pickup, the company called it \u201cthe smartest, most innovative F-150 that Ford has ever built,\u201d referring to it as the truck of the future.<\/p>\n

However, as Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, explains: <\/p>\n

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We\u2019re not here to make an electric truck for the few \u2013 Ford is committed to building one that solves real problems for real people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what Ford did. Ford was the first in the US to offer bidirectional charging<\/a> capabilities on an electric truck with Intelligent Backup Power, which \u201cprovides full-home power for up to three days or as long as ten days,\u201d depending on energy usage.<\/p>\n

The Ford Lightning also includes Pro Power Onboard<\/a>, providing up to 9.6 kW of power spread across 11 outlets, including a 240V outlet in the bed.<\/p>\n

After a severe winter storm hit Ontario, leaving thousands without power, Hydro One, an electricity distribution company serving the area, said in a statement<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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As the winter storm continues to affect the province, we urge our customers to prepare for possible outages. Our skilled team is working tirelessly to make repairs and restore power in areas that have been affected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One Ford Lightning owner used his electric pickup\u2019s powerful battery to power their home essentials for 44 hours. RapsFanLJ posted a picture of his EV pickup on Reddit, saying, \u201cthis baby saved us.\u201d <\/p>\n

Although it wasn\u2019t wired to the home\u2019s panel, the owner ran two extension cords with a splitter to power the refrigerators, freezers, Wi-Fi, select lights, and TV for nearly two full days. And the best part, when the power was restored, the Lightning still had 65% of its battery left. <\/p>\n

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Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n

Ford\u2019s electric truck is not only fun to drive (instant torque makes it the fastest-accelerating F-150 yet), but it does also help solve \u201creal problems for real people.\u201d <\/p>\n

Power outages have risen by around 78%<\/a> in the past ten years, compared to the previous 10, as extreme weather events like the winter storm in Ontario are becoming more frequent. <\/p>\n

The Ford F-150 Lightning has already helped people power up after hurricanes<\/a>, earthquakes<\/a>, floods<\/a>, and now a winter storm. The electric truck is already proving to be the \u201ctruck of the future\u201d Ford envisioned, and customers just began receiving them earlier this year. With over-the-air updates, the Ford Lightning will only continue improving from here with added features and capabilities.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of Canadian residents awoke Christmas ay with no electricity after a massive winter storm swept across the area. One southern Ontario resident was able to keep the lights on for almost two days after plugging in his Ford F-150 Lightning, and still had plenty of battery left after the power came back on. Ford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}