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Happy Tuesday, InsideEVs readers. The slow drip of information about the Ford Fathom well ahead of its official reveal continues.
This time, we’re learning that the $30,000 electric truck will get a simpler and more affordable vehicle-to-home bidirectional charging system. Since the Fathom rides on a fully new software-defined platform, Ford was able to engineer a home backup system that’s less complex and cheaper than what came with the F-150 Lightning.
With America’s growing electricity needs, plus extreme weather events linked to climate change straining the grid, having your EV serve as backup power for your home instead of a polluting generator could be genuinely useful.
That and more in today’s edition of The Update.
—Suvrat Kothari, Staff Writer
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