

With the Colonial disaster in mind, we zeroed in on Ford President and CEO Jim Farley, who offhandedly remarked that “ F-150 Lightning can power your home during an outage” among a laundry list of other bennies. If you smell burning toast in the air, that would be the gasmobile finally going down in flames,” we observed. “The media wizards in the media room of The Ford Motor Company must have been burning the midnight oil to cook up a scheme in which the automaker introduces an electric version of its popular F-150 pickup truck under the Lightning moniker just before the US approves its first world class offshore wind farm and right after a major oil pipeline shuts down, leading to a surge of panic buying not seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s. New Ford Lightning F-150 Pickup Truck Can Light Up Your Home In A DisasterĬleanTechnica figured something was cooking on the solar power angle last week, when we got a sneak peek at the new Lightning EV. Last night, the leading solar installer Sunrun let word slip that it is hooking up with Ford to provide two-way EV charging for Lightning F-150 owners, which could put more rooftop solar in the hands of more F-150 fans. Now it seems that zero emission mobility was only part of the plan. After years of slumber on electric mobility, this week Ford woke up and jumped into the EV race with all pistons firing, so to speak, when it launched the new Lightning F-150 all-electric pickup truck.
