ICE To EV. 2019 Tundra to 2023 F150 Lightning Lariat.
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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.
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.
Like the movie Blast from the past. Gonna be a whole new world of SUV for you to learn about. You’ll be great!
It’s going to be like when I went from a flip phone to an iPhone.
We have 1-2 power outages per year, sometimes more.
We get some nasty storms here and in the winter, my concern is freezing pipes if it's a longer outage. We had a big snowstorm a couple years ago with almost 3 feet of snow, and the power was out for almost 2 days. No fun! We had a big windstorm earlier this year that blew a tree down at the end of my driveway across the street, and it took the power lines down, snapped the pole, blew the transformer, etc. It was quite a mess and took the power company the rest of the day and most of the night to fix all the damage and get the power restored. I think it finally came back on around 4:00AM.
We are not on town water or sewer, so when the power is out, we lose our well pump and we have no water and no way to flush toilets, unless I want to hike down the steep ravine behind my house and fill buckets, then lug them back up the hill.
I think I'd rather plug in a generator cord to the Lightning and throw a transfer switch and have the essentials powered during an outage.
That’s why I bought in town. This California girl turned midwesterner 10 years ago knows nothing about all those things like wells and septic.
Makes sense why that would be helpful to have that as a backup.
We have whole house Solar with backup batteries. We run on average about 138% Energy Offset per-month. So, when the Scout gets here we are well prepared for L2 charging. Having said that in 2024 we had 18 back up events most in the range of 5-20 minutes and one event that was four days, hurricane Milton. If I didn't have notification I would not even know about the short events. House never skipped a beat, business as usual.
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