Ford says the F150 Lightning can power your whole house if power goes out. What Ford does not tell you is it is about $18,000 for the components to allow the truck to plug into your house. And the truck itself is $80,000. Total🤔 $98,000. And people complain about the cost of food these days. Jeez😜
I paid $2500 for a whole house generator.
@MallyDaKatt There are better backup options than a pickup truck.
https://electrek.co/2023/12/14/tesla-powerwall-solar-cheaper-than-backup-generator/
@walterbays
Yeah. And a whole lot less than $98,000.
@MallyDaKatt V2G could eventually become very useful to stabilize the grid and allow more renewable but inconsistent energy. It would require ubiquitous installation of public chargers with V2G capability where many drivers would be connected at all hours. They'd have a contract ensuring their vehicle was charged sufficiently for their needs, with incentives to share their excess. This is years away.
@walterbays
Had not heard about V2G.
Was reading about it and it sounds really cool. I wonder what that would cost per house🤔
@MallyDaKatt After seeing the Ford cost I think it wouldn't be cost effective in homes unless a new breakthrough method were developed. In public chargers the cost is amortized over dozens of vehicles. So you park at work and plug in. At the end of the day you might have a full battery. If not, know you have plenty to run your errands and reach home, and a big credit in your charging account.
Tesla's NACS seems better suited to V2G so as it takes over this might finally happen.
@MallyDaKatt Back in 2011Nissan was doing V2G in Japan with ChaDeMo connector. US and European makers feared Japan dominating so they came up with another standard, CCS, which happened to lack V2G capability and mostly drove ChaDeMo out of the market. Now that NACS is supplanting CCS there is hope again.
@MallyDaKatt Three years ago my eldest granddaughter and husband bought a big, black, diesel dodge Ram 3/4 ton 4WD pickup. It was so tall I couldn't see into the bed without stretching.
I asked how much it cost with all the interest and so on -- he didn't know. He did know that he could make the monthly payments.
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@GeorgeG
It shows how little the dollar is worth now. In just my generation I have seen 4by4 trucks prices reach $80,000. The house my mom bought in the 1970's cost $65,000.
My generation is GenX.
@MallyDaKatt
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