After a heavy winter storm hit southern Ontario and parts of Quebec around December 25th, one lucky home could keep the lights on via the power from a Ford Lightning.
Reddit user RapFanLJ posted a picture of his truck online, saying that he ran two extension cords from the truck to power the fridge, Wi-Fi, TV and select lights for two days during the storm. Then after the 44-hour outage, the truck still had 65% left in the tank.
While other EVs can achieve similar feats, the Ford Lightning is uniquely equipped for this since it has a maximum of 11 outlets and 9.6 kW of power between them. There’s also a bigger 240-volt outlet in the bed of the truck. Other cars like the Ioniq 5 only have one outlet inside the car, and drivers need a pricey adapter to get power outside the car.
That all said, this proves the usefulness of EVs, and in the future, this could be extremely helpful as storms get more intense and power outages get more frequent.