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July 27, 2026

Need backup power? Automakers want you to look no further than their vehicles in your driveway

  • Drivers of certain popular F-150 models can plug their vehicle directly into their electric meter to power their home during an outage.
    • By ALEXA ST. JOHN
    Associated Press

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    Automakers are adapting their electrification technologies to the home energy business, especially as demand on the grid increases and sales of electric vehicles slow.

    DETROIT — Winter Storm Uri, the multiday freeze that slammed Texas in February 2021 and pummeled the state's power grid, has been on Kenneth Kovar's mind ever since. Though the resident of New Braunfels, northeast of San Antonio, didn't lose power at the time, he wasn't able to run his septic tank — it is independent from local systems. He had to fill his toilets with water from his backyard pool.


     
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