Storing Lower-Cost Energy in Your Lightning to Power Your Home and Returning Power Back to the Grid

[PreservedSwine]

Costs aside, I love that Ford is so confident in their battery to actually recommend using it as an energy storage device for your home on a regular basis! This bodes well for those who wish to keep their trucks a long, long time imo.

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[NW Ontario Ford Lightning]

has a generstor input (unsure if it can take power in while providing power out).

These units can accept AC power while discharging AC power - pass through mode,
What they can't do is convert DC to AC (power AC load from Battery) while also converting AC to DC (charging battery from other AC source like Generator or grid) - because they use the same circuitry for both.

 

[Firn]

These units can accept AC power while discharging AC power - pass through mode,
What they can't do is convert DC to AC (power AC load from Battery) while also converting AC to DC (charging battery from other AC source like Generator or grid) - because they use the same circuitry for both.

I dont belive they would do what I am hoping for anyways. Ideally the system would be grid following and use the Pro Power as more storage. I dont think this is possible simply from a phase syncing standpoint.

 

[chl]

Planetary scientist who studies thermal systems here.

Nuclear winter would do it too. :/

Yes, I thought about that but was afraid to even think let alone say it out loud!
Especially with the recent news about the US restarting nuclear bomb testing, alas.

I'd prefer, say, a nice medium-ish volcanic eruption that would cool things not, but not too much, don''t want a world wide famine.

How's the North Atlantic current doing by the way? Should I buy a parka?

 

[Scorpio3d]

I prefer to store excess Solar in the Truck battery and NEVER sell it back to the utility - they don't pay enough.
I wonder if those big data centres are getting discount prices for grid power and "guess who" is getting price increases to offset those discounted prices...

I agree 100%
I’m not always home when I am producing though so I’m actually in the process of adding some additional capacity to my existing power wall i.e. one more power wall and expansion packs
The utilities don’t pay enough! at this moment I am currently selling my excess for $0/kwh and my truck’s at 85%

 

[NW Ontario Ford Lightning]

It is a big cost to build out a home storage battery big enough to collect solar during the day, and charge the truck late in the day, but I had other reasons for a big battery bank (winter storms) so we just went for it anyway. Has been great to roll in at 6:00PM on a sunny summer evening and charge up the the truck from solar collected all day while I was on the road.
That said, the cost per kWh of the house battery, over a ten year period may be close to what I pay for off-peak utility electricity...but the problem is when there isn't any off peak electicity available during a 3-day winter storm - then the big battery pays for itself - at least for our situation.

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