ICE To EV. 2019 Tundra to 2023 F150 Lightning Lariat.

[cyure]

ew. Thanks for the heads up, will avoid that one in the future if it comes with SunRun.

For our home charger setup, I decided not to do anything hard wired and instead just installed a 240V outlet at the driveway. This allows me to switch chargers with ease making it somewhat future proofed. I do want to get that cutoff switch for the house to enable bidirectional charging so will be watching that one closely in this thread. I have a 2kWh battery power station from Anker that I use for power outages. This can run my fridge, wifi, and a couple LED lights for like a day before running out. Not bad, but with a 100kWh battery or whatever the Scout comes with you're looking at many weeks of coverage if you use it right....anything beyond that and you probably need to call the Red Cross anyway lol.

Or drive to the nearest hotel with power.

 

[chucchinchilla]

Or drive to the nearest hotel with power.

Yeah we lost power for 3 days last year after a bad storm, charged the Anker battery at work which got us to the end of the outage. The next week on garbage day every can on the street was full of basically the entire contents of people's fridges...except ours.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Just curious. How often do you have power outages where you would need to do this? Actually this for all you forum peeps out there considering installing this and needing to use this feature.

We get power outages about every quarter or so. Sometimes for a few minutes, but often for several hours. With the permanent-install whole-home battery backup, we don’t even know there’s something wrong until our system emails us. I don’t have a use for the bidirectional charging system because I cannot guarantee that the truck is home when the power goes out. And if I’m home and we need the truck, we can plug it into the generator input on our solar system.