You know maybe I'm wrong, I'm seeing conflicting articles. I thought the charge station handled it and that their EV guy said it but they may have been intentionally skipping a step. This Ford article seems to say it's chargestation pro -
https://media.ford.com/content/ford.../05/19/all-electric-ford-f-150-lightning.html. I thought their head of EV said it was just the chargestation pro too in this podcast -
. In any case will be interesting.
In the podcast you linked he mentions the "charging box" is bi-directional but that doesn't mean it's the
only hardware required. He mentions that during an outage, the current from the truck will be "picked up by an inverter on your wall". He mentions that "you need another box on the wall but this is not a hugely expensive thing...and we've given you
everything else that you need. So
you only simply need that last box and it installed and then you're ready to go". That's the transfer switch/inverter that he's talking about. While a cheap automatic transfer switch might only run $500, a combined transfer switch/inverter will probably cost $2000 or more,
plus installation. Without it, there's no way the vehicle would be allowed to just power the house since the transfer switch is necessary to isolate the house from the grid. With Powerwall installs, the gateway or gateway 2 isolates the house from the grid. Installation requires homeowners to decide if they want partial or whole-home backup and potentially other changes such as upgrading the electric panel. For some households wanting this feature from the F150 Lightning, it might only be ~$2000 plus install but for other households it could easily cost $5000 or more, depending on what other changes are required to the electric panel.
His statement that you'll be able to power your house for "at least 3 days, maybe 10" is a very bad over-simplification since he didn't mention the "at 30 kWh per day" disclaimer listed on the website. Also it
should be able to last
longer than 10 days, assuming the household load is low. The amount of time you can
actually power your house depends on how many kWh are in your battery and how much energy your house uses, not what their head of EVs claims using marketing-speak on a podcast.