re: New Electric Ford F-150 could power your home for 3 days

For the record I think it's a pretty cool feature. For the sake of arguing, you could make a pretty compelling case that a vehicle can power your house and get you from point A to point B. However, doing one of those negates it from doing the other. So, it can't be a whole house backup generator and a vehicle at the same time. A good example using your own analogy with the AC is that when you are driving around in you're vehicle it has AC as a feature, when you park your vehicle next to your window and run a duct inside, it's an expensive AC unit. Likewise, when you delegate your many 10s of thousands of dollars truck that can get you from point A to point B to $500 generator duties, the truck become and expensive generator.

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get an 80-amp home charging station

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I'm assuming this refers to the charger input? If so, adding an 80 amp circuit to many home is going to be a deal killer.

Anyone looking to buy this option needs to take a look at their home's electrical system first.

I don’t even know what kind of moron depletes their mode of transportation in a power outage that lasts for more than a couple hours which typically happens in storms or other calamitous events.

Great I powered my house for a few days, now I can’t go get food or water down at the national guard station because I’m a fricking idiot.

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I don’t even know what kind of moron depletes their mode of transportation in a power outage that lasts for more than a couple hours which typically happens in storms or other calamitous events.

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You have the same mindset as the "expensive generator" guy. You don't have to use the feature. If you do use it, you don't have to use the entire charge. It's a truck, buy it if it serves your transportation needs and fits your budget. Enjoy the reduced "fuel" and maintenance costs. Don't buy it if you need to haul shite hundreds of miles, or if you want backup power and it's your only means of transportation, or if it makes your dick limp to even think about an EV.

If you have a standby generator, maybe this feature doesn't provide as much value to you. Or maybe you'd like it anyway so you can power your house for 10 cents on the dollar vs burning natgas or diesel. Or maybe your power company charges rates based on time of use, and you can store that cheap night time energy and use it in the morning and evening instead of burning the higher rate grid power.

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Great I powered my house for a few days, now I can’t go get food or water down at the national guard station because I’m a fricking idiot.

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It generally helps to not be a fricking idiot throughout all of life regardless of what you're doing.

The point is the entire “feature” is stupid. Zero chance I expend energy meant for transportation in a sustained power outage scenario.

So keep a second ICE truck around to haul shite while my lightning powers the house in the event of an emergency?

Alright

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The point is the entire “feature” is stupid. Zero chance I expend energy meant for transportation in a sustained power outage scenario.

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That's just, like, your opinion, man. If you don't want to use the feature, don't use it. It's mostly just a side effect feature of simply having batteries and charging equipment on-premises. If your power goes out, feel free to let the generator run and burn that $50/day. Personally, I would probably shave that bill in half by running it a while during the day then shutting it down to let the truck keep the house running at night. If you don't have a generator, then the feature isn't stupid at all. It's standby power if you need it. Run the AC and fridge for a few hours, then shut it down. Do the same every day for a week and still have half a charge to drive around.

In these SHTF scenarios, it can be hard to find gas, too. At least an EV owner with a generator or solar can charge up at home.

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So keep a second ICE truck around to haul shite while my lightning powers the house in the event of an emergency?

Alright

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You're acting like a complete moron.

When the power is out everywhere, most people stay at home. And if they leave, they cut off the generator anyway. If you will be out there cleaning up the mess or helping to restore power, you know maybe you shouldn't buy a fricking electric vehicle. Or maybe it would be pretty awesome if you would drive your electric truck down to your neighbor's house so you and he can run his fridge without having to burn his precious transportation fuel running a generator.


Or you can just keep dreaming up the absolute stupidest shite you can possibly think of and then complain that it's stupid.

You’re a dipshit who’s never had to clear roads, haul debris, or lug repair materials around while power is out for two weeks.

Don't really see what's funny. You're the one acting like 100% of people need to be self reliant during extended outages. But it's funny to be able to do it indefinitely?