Ford immediately revealed pricing for its Cost Station Professional, an 80-amp bidirectional charging station that’s required for F-150 Lightning homeowners to make the most of Ford’s Clever Backup Energy choice. 

The Ford Cost Station Professional, which was co-developed with Siemens eMobility, is now accessible from Ford’s web site for $1,310.00. Whereas that will sound like some huge cash, it is truly very fairly priced for an 80-amp charging station that may provide bidirectional energy circulation.

As an example, the ClipperCreek CS-100, an 80-amp charging station retails for $2,195.00 – and that is only a charging station; it does not have bidirectional energy circulation functionality.

We might additionally wish to level out that on the ordering web page of Ford’s web site they’ve an inaccurate image. As an alternative of the Cost Station Professional’s CCS  connector, they present an image of a J1772 connector that the Ford Cellular Charger and Ford’s Related Cost Station each use.

The Ford Cost Station Professional makes use of the CCS or “Combo” connector as a result of it wants the 2 DC pins on the underside of the connector to ship energy again from the car to the home. When the Cost Station Professional is charging the F-150 Lightning, it is utilizing the J1772 pins on the prime of the CCS connector, however when the car is sending energy again to the charging station, it does so utilizing the 2 DC pins on the backside.

The 2 massive pins on the backside of the connector ship energy from the truck again to the Cost Station Professional.

The Cost Station Professional is rated for each indoor and out of doors use and comes with a 25-foot cable. The scale are 12.6″ x 23.4″ x 6.9″ and the unit requires a 100-amp devoted circuit in order for you it to ship the complete 19.2 kW that it is able to delivering. 

Nevertheless, you possibly can de-rate the facility all the way in which right down to solely 20-amps if your house electrical provide can’t assist delivering extra energy to the unit and you do not wish to pay for an electrical service improve.

The excellent news is in the event you do de-rate the facility the Cost Station Professional delivers to the Lightning, it may well nonetheless ship the complete 40-amps (9.6 kW) to your house within the case of an influence failure. That is as a result of the 2 sides of the Cost Station Professional (AC for charging & DC to energy your house) are separate, and have totally different wiring feeds. 

Prospects that order the F-150 Lightning with the prolonged vary battery pack (131 kWh usable) obtain a Cost Station Professional with their car at no further value. Due to this fact, solely F-150 Lightning homeowners with the usual vary battery pack (98 kWh usable) would want to buy the Cost Station Professional.

Nevertheless, the Cost Station Professional is not wanted to cost the F-150 lightning, as any charging station geared up with a J1772 connector can cost the truck. That features the usual Ford Cellular Charger that comes with each Ford Mustang Mach-E and Ford F-150 Lightning. Cost Station Professional is barely wanted if clients wish to use Ford Clever Backup Energy, due to its bidirectional energy capabilities. 

Ford has partnered with SunRun for set up providers for the Cost Station Professional in addition to Ford’s Clever Backup Energy system, however clients do have the selection of choosing the installer of their selection if they like to not contract SunRun.