Electrical Vehicles as Home Electrical Power Backup Systems
One way to expand the value of ANY EV to it's owners is exactly this! Design capacity into the vehicle's charging systems, battery management hardware and software of the EV for use as alternative power source in times of owners' home area electrical grid supply failure. These EVs have battery energy storage capacities rivaling if not far exceeding some home power backup battery storage systems. The New Ford F-150 EV has 131 Kilowatt-hours of battery energy supply when fully charged! The smallest EV SUV I know of has a battery system with 78 Kilowatt-hours of energy storage capacity!
Ford has teamed up with Sunrun, a Chicago area corporation in the business of making home electrical power battery backup Systems for this precise purpose. Ford TV ads touting this F-150 EV feature have been appearing for weeks already.
