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I believe I agree with you. Wouldn't it have been wonderful if Ford had designed in a "battery tender" type system. If the drive battery can supply power to an entire house for days imagine how long it could trickle charge its own 12 volt battery even if the truck wasn't plugged in. If you were...

If I use a battery tender the 12v will always be charged and I wont have to worry about it. If the battery goes dead/bad and I follow Ford instructions I have to get the frunk open,crawl into the frunk to pull the battery cover to connect a charger. Or release multiple retainers to remove the...

Thanks Chi. I think we all know the best thing for long term storage on a normal 12volt battery is something like a Battery Tender. We sometimes go away in the Winter and leave the truck plugged in inside the garage. After hearing stories on this site about sometimes OA updates might not go thru...

I want to route my battery tender leads thru the area of the charge door. I will hard wire the leads to the correct battery connection points. I can't see what's behind that area so I'm a little concerned about where to drill the hole so I don't cause any damage. Any chance someone has a...

the 12volt battery in the Lightning is the same as an ICE vehicle. Many of us leave a battery tender hooked up to our cars that is in storage over the winter. 6 months. I don't see why it would be different for the Lighting.

Ran across a YouTube video of someone charging the 12V battery in their ICE truck by using the large trailer plug at back of truck. Those plugs have a constant ground and 12 v pins. This guy bought a blank RV style big that plugs into the large plug in the back of the Lightning. He cutoff the...

I think I will just charge it to 50% and leave the 12 battery hooked up but leave a battery tender connected to it. Then just bring it back up to 90% when I get back. Thanks

Thanks for the answer but my question was has anyone noticed that after an update (months ago) that now if you leave your truck plugged into 240 but dont actually drive it for a coupe weeks have you also lost the ability to connect to it with the App? It wasn't that way the 1st Winter I left it...

We go away for a few months during the Winter. 1st year left it in unheated garage plugged in. All winter I was able to monitor it from my phone. Next winter year after BMS changed after a few week in storage I could not connect to the truck via the app to see condition. Sent son over to look...

I'm about an north of Chicago. I was hoping maybe an electronics/car shop might do it.

has anyone found a car shop that will turn on this feature for you? Not comfortable buying the equipment and doing this myself but would pay someone to do it for me.

Sorry I may not have been clear. As you know there have been many comments on how people are trying to find the easiest/cost effective way to be able to power our homes in a power failure. I don't have solar or anything exotic. The unit from PGE out west seems to be the simplest answer but we...

what type of connection to the house do you have? Generac or ?

Terrific info. I never saw this before. I will need to contact Teso and my local power company. This is obviously the best solution to use our Lightnings during power outages. Thanks for posting this.

Has anyone confirmed which company is making the PGE unit (model) so we can try to source it for our Homes not using PGE somewhere else in the country.

I saw that on the list before but I don't see that it differentiates between an ICE F150 and the Lightning.

Agreed but I think the 1st step is making sure PG&E accepts that it will work with Lightning. Once that get confirmed I could go to my local electric company and ask for approval to install. I would have to pay for it of course. With the increase of EV ownership and the increase in demand for...