Ford F-150 Lightning Powers Florida Man’s Cooking, Lights, Fridge, Leisure Throughout Hurricane Ian

Ford F-150 Lightning Powers Florida Man’s Cooking, Lights, Fridge, Leisure Throughout Hurricane Ian

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The Ford F-150 Lightning has simply barely arrived in the marketplace, but I’ve already heard just a few tales of the Lightning powering folks’s wants within the occasion of energy outages. The primary I heard about was up in Michigan, and we’ve acquired an entire podcast approaching that F-150 Lightning proprietor’s expertise in addition to his commentary on proudly owning the Mustang Mach-E, driving with Ford BlueCruise, and extra. By the way, he and I have been on a webinar that was recorded throughout Hurricane Ian. I used to be upstairs in our townhouse as robust hurricane winds started to strike us, and I anticipated the ability to exit at any second. This F-150 Lightning proprietor, Aaron Smith, who can be a CleanTechnica reader and President of the Power and Environmental Constructing Alliance (EEBA), joked that I might use a Lightning throughout Hurricane Ian — and consider me, I used to be pondering the identical!! Because it turned out, we didn’t lose electrical energy till about 90% of our county and 100% of our neighboring county had misplaced electrical energy inside our utility district, and I made it during the hour-and-a-half webinar! (We ended up dropping electrical energy for simply ~16 hours beginning later within the night.) As we’ll see beneath, a Ford F-150 Lightning did assist one Florida man and his household experience out the storm. Earlier than we get to that story, although, if you wish to watch that aforementioned webinar, right here it’s:

The F-150 Lightning proprietor who used his Lightning when his energy was out is Westley Aaron Ferguson. He used his electrical Ford pickup truck to energy his and his household’s fridge, lights, followers, TV, electrical range burner, file participant, and audio system — and doubtless extra.

As the image on the underside proper reveals, the battery was nonetheless at 95% cost and the AC contained in the truck was set to 69°F.

The photographs are nearly out of an advert for Ford. At first, I questioned if he had used Ford market footage. Although, it seems he’s a photographer and Affiliate Inventive Director at Elegant Seagulls, with shoppers starting from ESPN to Netflix to Airbnb.

Westley additionally introduced us again in time a bit, or at the very least used expertise a few of us bear in mind from the 2000s, Nineteen Nineties, and maybe even earlier to take pleasure in some entertainments through the storm with out WiFi.

Westley even had a while to name out some counterproductive and misinformed anti-EV fear-mongering through the hurricane.

Additionally see: “Tesla Mannequin X In ‘Boat Mode’ Escapes Hurricane Ian Floodwaters.”

A Ford exec was joyful to hitch in on the enjoyable as effectively and provided a bit pun in response to Westley’s tweet.

Hehe — intelligent.

One individual requested how lengthy Westley thought he’d be capable of run his home on the Lightning, a query many have been absolutely questioning. Naturally, not realizing how lengthy they’d be with out energy (it may very well be hours or it may very well be days or even weeks), essentially the most logical factor was to solely use the Lightning to energy necessities. Additionally, Westley didn’t have the vehicle-to-home (V2H) setup Ford is providing in partnership with Sunrun. As you’ll be able to see beneath, although, they used ~10% of the truck’s energy in at some point, so he assumed they might have used the truck like that for 8–9 days if the grid energy had stayed out that lengthy.

Ultimately, he simply had to make use of the truck to energy their electrical range, fridge, followers, lights, and leisure for 2 days. The truck absolutely should have felt priceless in these days, although!

Westley’s Twitter timeline, simply a few days earlier than Hurricane Ian hit, he was having loads of enjoyable with the younger F-150 Lightning in different methods. He acquired loads of double-takes on the airport when loading up the enormous Mega Frunk with baggage …

… and he went again to the long run in opposition to a DeLorean on his solution to Common Studios in Orlando.

What every week! Together with his luck, and his pictures expertise, we’ll need to examine in with Westley down the highway to see what other forms of adventures he will get into together with his Lightning!


 

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