Power outages aren’t Northern California. In the approaching months, residents who personal a appropriate electrical automobile — such because the — will successfully be capable of use it as a backup generator.

Ford has teamed up with PG&E, the primary vitality supplier within the area, for a bidirectional electrical automobile charging venture. The firms declare the F-150 Lightning can energy a house for as much as 10 days (relying on vitality wants) within the occasion of an outage. Sunrun, one other of the automaker’s partners, will begin putting in Ford’s Intelligent Backup Power system in Northern California this spring. 

GM with PG&E earlier this week. If preliminary testing goes effectively, they’re going to allow vehicle-to-grid charging for a small variety of individuals with earlier than increasing the trial extra broadly later this 12 months.