Both the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning and its hybrid cousin will be able to power up the Mach-E and others. Here's what to know.
We already knew that Ford was planning to add some sort of vehicle-to-vehicle charging capability to the battery-powered F-150 Lightning. Speaking within November, F-150 Lightning Chief Engineer Linda Zhang confirmed that they were working on such a feature for the automaker’s first all-electric pickup, but they didn’t officially reveal it or elaborate on its capability until last week.
Last month, Zhang had said that only the F-150 Lightning would be able to share its on-board battery’s power with another vehicle. But Ford’s new information expands this giving-others-a-charge functionality to the F-150 Hybrid, which will utilize its onboard generator to do so. Other vehicles in the Ford lineup will be able to directly benefit from this bidirectional charging. For example, Ford will support the Mustang Mach-E crossover, E-Transit van, and other F-150 Lightnings out of the gate.
The vehicle-to-vehicle charging feature on the F-150 Lightning and Hybrid will be manufacturer-agnostic, meaning that as long as the car receiving the charge can utilize the F-150’s bed-mounted 240-volt power outlet, it will charge just as if it was plugged into any other Level 2 source. The way to do that will be to use a common L14-30P to 14-50R adapter plug along with a Ford Mobile Power Cord, and it will be possible to charge any vehicle with a J1772 charging inlet.
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