Charging your Ford Lightning EVerything you need to know!

hey guys welcome back i've got another really great video for you here in this clip one of the ford representatives is going to tell us everything we need to know about charging this ford lightning so i'm super excited he's going to cover all about the sunrun deal what's going on there what kind of equipment do we need they actually have a demo display there on the wall to show what it looks like and everything so stay tuned watch this video and you can see everything you need to know about charging your ford lightning what backup power does for you is it uses this vehicle's battery on board um to power your house during an outage so some people are like oh how much is that what do you do so if you're familiar with stationary storage units that go in your house i won't drop any brand names but like a battery that goes in your house there's 10 of those on here so just go price shop and figure out what it costs by 10 and then compare that to the price of the vehicle and you probably smiling like the vehicle's a big deal so yeah if you guys walk over here um we'll talk about the system and how it works so we have a standard range vehicle and an extended range vehicle so that's your 320 and then a camera if it's 230 240 something like that but basically if you get the extended range vehicle the larger battery um you get this with it so kind of cool for industry like a lot of people you get an electric vehicle you don't know what electric vehicle is you have to think about charging what kind of charging do i need where do i get it we give you the solution so it comes with the vehicle if you get the standard range you can also purchase this but the reason we do this one with the vehicle is because it will provide you 19.2 kilowatts of power now that i was an engineer at one point so it makes a lot of sense to me if that doesn't make sense to you that's the fastest you can home charge right now with ac power so we nine foot 19.2 you can install it at that rate or you can install it lower level some people kind of panic oh my god an old house i got a small panel i can't accommodate we allow you to have some flexibility with it we do give you access to that on the extended range we have what's called dual on-board chargers so you have a laptop or a phone right you plug it into the wall and there's a box in between that box takes ac power from your house turns it to dc so the battery on your units can use it this system is the opposite you've got the battery you want to access so you have to convert it into usable power for your house you go from dc power to ac when we talk about charging um you look at this charger and if you guys have you guys ever seen ac chargers or chargers if you haven't um this this top portion is what your charger will typically look like so that's for ac charging we do the ac charging we do the 19.2 kilowatts in the truck through that portion of the charger this bottom part this looks like a level three charger you're doing public charging this bottom part has our dc pins this is a direct connection to the battery up here goes through your onboard charger so that's where you have you know however powerful the onboard charger is how much you can put the battery here this goes direct to the battery so we can take the energy straight off the battery so if you come home from work or you come home and you had your typical person you would just plug your car in or you're trucking excuse me and you could go into your house and you'd either sit down and start watching tv cook whatever you're doing and then your power might go out when you meanwhile your car your truck will be charging your power might go out you're out for about 40 45 seconds then it comes back on automatically you don't have to do anything you don't have to press anything you don't have to go to the truck and the cool part is we've used one connection to the vehicle to get access both for power off the vehicle as well as recharging so it's just one plug in your set um then when the power comes back on uh the power automatically starts flowing and charging your truck again so if you think about in an event where the power goes out most most average homes use about 30 kilowatt hours a day so it's like two two and a half kilowatt hours per hour on average so if you're thinking okay i've got a five hour blackout it's like two two two two you're up to like about 10 kilowatt hours this goes at 19.2 boom you just filled it all back up so when you have those rolling outages in california when you have intermittent outages every time the power comes back on you're putting it back in so what does that mean for an extended range vehicle that's charged up you get three days of power um if you if you ration your power you can go as long as 10 days so say you're on vacation you want to make sure your freezer stays frozen your sump pump runs so your basement doesn't flood you know your attic fans are going so you don't heat up or melt anything that type of stuff can continue to run and you might get up to ten days while you're out of town um or you tell the kids like me i tell the kids shots video games we can go four or five days and manage any outage we might face so you guys are leaning on the stuff that's going to be in your garage or basement um i'm glad that it's you know kind of hidden like that because that's the way you'll see it this is this so so you have options right get the extended range you get charging with it problem solved we've given you two thirds of the solution if you want backup power this is the third section or the third third uh thing that you'll need so this is called a home integration system we don't call out the different components because it would get confusing to folks so we just call it your home integration system you want backup power get the home integration system the two main components in it are your inverter so this is your laptop club takes the dc power converts it into ac to put it into the house this will run at 9.6 kilowatts so 9.6 kilowatts is quite a bit of power depending on what you have in your house and wave appliances is kind of really the thing you have to start to consider so my house is all gas appliances so no consideration my whole house is going to run no problem if you're loaded up with electrical appliances you know your stove your heaters your whatever that that you might have to start making some trade-offs but it'll run all of your outlets all of your light switches all of your fans your ceiling lights all of that so you can keep everybody happy with the 9.6 and then there's some choices to make depending on the circumstance of your house the other major component is your transfer switch this is consistent it's an auto transfer switch it's consistent with if you had a gas generator or something like that this disconnects you from the grid when the power is out tells the system powers out asks for power the truck provides power back and you're you're back alive so you notice the name sunrun here next ford sunrun is the leading solar provider for retail solar in the us we're working with them for obvious reasons this is a sophisticated system and they install solar all the time stationary storage all the time and so we've worked with them to make sure that customers can make the right choices and have the right knowledge to install this the way they might need it and answer the questions is to like not work how do i do this and then the other cool thing is you can get solar through and then by working with them we coordinate with them so that this unit a lot of times if you get solar stationary storage and then if you get an ev you know you're going to potentially have folks who bring an inverter in the box you'll need an inverter for solar you'll need an inverter for storage this will accommodate your ev for backup power it'll accommodate a solar array on your roof and it'll accommodate two stationary storage units all within one system so think of it as like now i've got a dc side of the house that i can you know in the future do whatever so we'll go this way and i'll tell you a little bit about the sneak peek of what some of the future is coming that we've already announced so talk about pro power on board right talk about um intelligent backup power um take take that intelligent backup power and just erase the middle word and you get intelligent power so um i don't know where you i know where some of you are from but not everybody how many people are not familiar with time of use or variable cost of electricity through the day not not familiar okay yeah no i would expect most a lot of people aren't unless you own an ev or you live in a territory in the country where they actually do it but basically what time of use rate is is imagine you're driving into work in the morning and gas is two dollars and fifty cents leaving in the evening it's ten dollars would you change when you fill up like would you always fill up in the morning everybody should you can yeah yeah i'm not gonna fill up at 10 bucks a gallon some people in california are getting close but so what electricity does is is electricity has a peak period so throughout the day all the businesses are open right everybody starts coming home from work and houses start to ramp up they call that peak you turn your computers on you turn your tvs on the lights come on air conditioner kicks in and they have this curve that cause causes peak so that's when you see like the governor of texas saying please turn your air conditioners off that's when you see some rolling blackouts in california because the grid starts to have brown outs and gets really taxed and can have problems so what this truck will automatically do with intelligent power is it's going to identify those windows of low cost which is typically overnight here in texas it's got a pretty cool thing for ev customers is you can get on some of the plans they offer free charging overnight so they have a lot of wind in west texas and basically if you don't use it it's lost so they're allowing customers to use that energy to take it so imagine charging your vehicle up for free overnight having it plugged in in the evening and then during that peak period when costs can be two to four times as expensive as overnight you take your house offline through your truck so you're saving the customer potentially significant savings through that period and then the utility some people ask are you gaming the utility that way are they going to be unhappy with that absolutely not i just took load off the grid when they want it gone and i'm using the energy that they're otherwise wasting so it's a double win for the utility and then i'm as an ev being a good consumer as well because i've been added to the problem by charging at the wrong time so the truck through the cloud will do all that automatically when we launch intelligent power in the future the cool part is if you're a backup customer you're all set all you got to do is it's software so there's no more hardware to put in to get intelligent power and then when you think about the solar and storage and other things that can come it's kind of a really cool thing so people are like oh so this is like a gas generator i'm like not really like i mean it does that little thing yeah i mean it powered your house and out it but the potential is so much more so it's gonna be a lot of fun to see how customers kind of use it in an analogy would be our pro power on board the way people use that today we're going to see some other examples next door with the urban farm but um the the uses are well beyond anything you could possibly think just off the top of your head so yes that sir say like every day during the peak power how would that affect the battery life of the truck like would it affect the cells over time in the future we're going to make sure that we have the proper battery management techniques in place um to make sure the customer is not compromised so with backup power um just put it in context if i'm doing that like say have a typical five hour outage you know long outage is like four to eight hours typically we all remember the three day or whatever but most outages are like in the hours range so if i were to go like say five hours and i was using two kilowatt hours per hour that's like 10 kilowatt hours just like maybe 25 30 miles so in that peak period it's like you know 20 miles maybe 30 miles or something you might be offsetting in backup power since it's intermittent there's no issues at all there's no real challenges to think about for batteries but in the future we're going to make sure that we have um a system that works for the customer and operates for their needs so so working through that but yeah with backup power it's you know it's maybe it's within the variation what people drive already so it's going to be fun kind of available right off the bat so it'll be cool um i'll tell one quick story i'm sure hannah's late okay no we're good okay i'm gonna embellish a little bit so we've installed some systems and houses um obviously and i was in a basement with a gentleman when we were because we always test the system after we installed so we're in the basement and i said you might want to turn the light on and so he turns his iphone light on and the basement's kind of you know dark and stuff and so the power goes out and all we have is this little cell phone light it's a little creepy but um so we're standing there and you know 40 seconds fast pulling the lights come back on and he was like a little kid i mean it's so fun to see like first time i did it you know you get the tingles and stuff oh that was cool but he looks at me and he says is that the truck and i'm like yeah he's like that's cool i was like yeah it is cool isn't it you know and then we go out the garage so we can show them yeah it is the truck look the truck's running and you look through the ford pass and you can see us running so in ford pass you have the ability to see things you get the notifications you'll be able to say you want to go to sleep pause the system while you sleep so you save energy that way um so yeah he pulled up his forecast he's like oh wow yeah it's like that's so cool so it was very cool i mean it's kind of cool my other story i may have told it at the beginning but if i didn't i'm looking forward to like the guy like when the power goes out and his neighbor calls it says your power out and you have to say i don't know let me check you know what i mean it's gonna it's gonna be kind of neat that way and i'm probably like one of the few people on the planet right now looking forward to the next power outages this summer but i'm kind of getting excited about it so it'll be neat it'll be neat to see all the experiences that people have where it's like man it saved the day or it did this for me or you know it just like california i think it's going to be fairly popular because if you're working from home right and you've got those rolling outages which it's just a matter of fact right now because they have to avoid forest fires and the winds and things like that so they start rolling the power outages reduce power um you know if you're working from home and argos that you don't really have any control over that now if you've got your truck you're already home the truck's in the driveway it's working for you so we think about like you know you always use the truck for work in the past now the truck has the opportunity to work for you which is kind of a different paradigm and i'm not as exciting because this is what the truck looks like when i do all my work just sitting here but imagine now it's sitting in your driveway not taking up space it's actually doing something so it's kind of cool um so i'll walk you over to the urban farm so you can see more of the stuff that the truck's going to do uh down the road if you had two lightnings i know they're hard to get that's probably not many people but if you had two do you only need one of the sun to run you only need one system and you would you would pair the truck with the system okay and so you could use yeah if you had two lightnings in the future depending on what we do this system with the other evs we bring to market if you had a couple 40 v's yeah yeah i mean you could come and go and have duration things like that cool yeah awesome thank you so much really appreciate it glad you guys thank you i know that was kind of a long video i really hope that helped you guys i have been learning a ton about this car a truck it's just so funny that we have an electric truck now i keep saying electric cars still but i cannot wait to get this hooked up in my house what he didn't cover is that i realized online the inverter that he has over there is actually also a solar inverter so you could use that to power your house from the vehicle from the truck and everything but then you can also have four parallel strings of solar panels to the same unit you don't have to have a whole separate solar inverter solar system if you want to do a parallel system you definitely could but it's pretty awesome that the sunrun unit actually includes solar input as well so very cool but anyways i hope you guys like that video i really hope you enjoy everything i'm putting out here feel free to do the youtube thing and like share subscribe thanks a lot guys

Channel: James Klafehn

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Length: 14min 26sec (866 seconds)

Published: Sun May 08 2022