"How Ford’s Electric Pickup Can Power Your House for 10 Days"
"How Ford’s Electric Pickup Can Power Your House for 10 Days"
“How Ford’s Electric Pickup Can Power Your House for 10 Days”
As you may know, I’m not exactly a huge cheerleader for electric vehicles, but there is something to say regarding this truck.
First, get the BS out of the way. If 131 kWh was enough to power a house for 10 days, then 400 kWh would be enough to power a house for a month. That would mean electric bills on the order of $40 to $50 a month for your house. Sorry, that aint the case. So, a reasonable number is perhaps 4 days of power without AC (or electric heating) and 1.5 days if those systems are running. Still nothing to sneeze at, as that is a lot of energy and far more than Tesla’s PowerWall.
This is where it does get interesting - the cost for this entire truck is FAR LESS than the cost of an equivalent number of PowerWalls (or similar systems). So, yea, I could understand buying this truck as a backup to grid or solar power (maybe 2 or 3 of them), and with the bonus of having something to take to the store and buy groceries. And, in fact, Tesla FORBIDS using their vehicles as a backup power source.
So this truck provides is far more usefulness than most electric cars, whose only practical purpose is to give the owner a way to hold his nose up at others while virtue signaling.