The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning’s bi-directional charging functionality is a key promoting level for the electrical pickup because it permits it to energy houses, different electrical autos or just double as a backup generator at worksites. 

Fitted with the out there Professional Energy Onboard system that permits as much as 9.6 kilowatts of exportable electrical energy, the F-150 Lightning can cost different Ford electrical autos just like the Mustang Mach-E or E-Transit, in addition to EVs from different manufacturers so long as they use a SAE J1772 cost port.

As you have most likely seen by now in varied movies, the F-150 Lightning can cost Teslas, the Rivian R1T, Sensible EQ Fortwo, Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Audi e-tron, amongst different EVs. The issue with the charging experiments we have seen to this point was the low charging velocity just like Stage 1 AC charging.

Now, the crew over at TFLEV has taken issues up a notch by trying to completely cost one other electrical car from the F-150 Lightning at Stage 2 charging speeds. For apparent causes, they selected the Mini Cooper SE because the donor car. 

For the reason that small EV has a 32.6-kwh battery pack, the electrical Ford’s totally charged 131-kWh battery shouldn’t have any concern topping up the Mini and nonetheless have loads of remaining vary after that—at the least that is the idea of it. Effectively, the video proves that is the case, because the crew charged the Mini Cooper SE from the Ford F-150 Lightning’s 240-volt mattress outlet utilizing the truck’s normal Stage 2 connector and an adapter.

With this setup, it took the Mini about 5 and a half hours to completely cost at 7.2 kilowatts from nearly zero p.c SoC, “stealing” 27 p.c of the F-150 Lightning’s state of cost within the course of. There have been no points in anyway throughout the cost, with the Ford exhibiting no signs of overheating regardless of the followers approaching and off at instances.

Head over to the above video for the complete particulars on this charging experiment, however do be aware that the half with the Lightning begins round 10 minutes into the video; the primary 10 minutes present an F-150 PowerBoost hybrid charging the stranded Mini simply sufficient so it may transfer by itself to TFL’s storage 5 miles away the place the all-electric F-150 would arrive the subsequent day to completely cost it.