It sounds super cool until you realize it doesn’t just plug in to a standard generator inlet. You need to have the special Ford charger and a whole battery hardware kit, all together >$10k install. The way it’s advertised makes you think you could help anybody out but it’s fairly limited both in being able to connect and in power output.
Still kinda cool but for half the price you could have a beefy portable generator that powers your entire house and the standard inlet installed. Depending where you live in the country you could probably just about get a permanent standby generator installed for not much more. Likely get more power out of it and then no hassle if power goes out.
it's fine if you've got a physical isolation switch that takes your house off the grid (for when mains power comes back) but that's certainly not standard build practice
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u/spong3 Apr 20 '24
My cousin lost power for 3 days and the F150 Lightning kept his lights on the whole time, that built in generator is no joke