{"id":1582,"date":"2021-08-30T10:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T10:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2021-08-30T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T10:25:40","slug":"married-ford-engineers-save-wedding-during-power-failure-with-their-hybrid-f-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=1582","title":{"rendered":"Married Ford engineers save wedding during power failure with their hybrid F-150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> close <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/f50cd95d-db6d-4812-86c2-d7c1ddfc99e8\/13fff56f-7cf0-4e76-b073-195b4def7130\/1280x720\/match\/931\/524\/image.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"See it: Ford F-150 hybrid saves wedding during power outage\" data-v-13907676> Video <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-13907676>See it: Ford F-150 hybrid saves wedding during power outage<\/h4>\n<p data-v-13907676>A Ford engineer saved the night with his F-150 PowerBoost hybrid when the electricity went out at the outdoor wedding he was at and he used the truck&#8217;s generator feature to turn the lights back on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Add wedding planner to the Ford F-150 PowerBoost&#8217;s list of capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Well, not exactly, but one of the hybrid pickups did save the night at an outdoor wedding reception in Michigan last week.<\/p>\n<p>Married Ford engineers Harish Thiruvengadam and Swetha Shailendra were at the event in Farmington Hills, which was delayed a couple of hours by heavy storms that passed through the area, when the power went out &nbsp;in the neighborhood around 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything was going fine, it was a great party, actually, and out of the blue there was a power outage,&#8221; Thiruvengadam&nbsp;told Fox News Autos.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/640\/320\/ford-wedding.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"\"> <\/p>\n<p>After he realized it was more than just a tripped circuit breaker, Thiruvengadam remembered they had their F-150 PowerBoost with them, which has a powertrain that can double as a 7.2-kilowatt generator and outlets in the bed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/3db76f49-617d-489a-b9b4-bc915acb8a26\/c87d98a2-0e95-4b56-a26c-89ed0aad4903\/1280x720\/match\/720\/405\/image.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Fox News Autos test drive: 2021 Ford F-150 Powerboost hybrid\"> Video<\/p>\n<p>So he rounded up the extension cords for the lights and music, plugged them in and &#8220;boom, that worked so well with just the flick of a switch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Ford, the generator feature can run at full output for up to 32 hours on a full tank of gas, and Shailendra said it powered the party until around 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the guests worked in the auto industry for other car companies and Thiruvengadam said they gathered around the truck, which wasn&#8217;t making much noise like the backup generators of the surrounding homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people are honestly very surprised and wondering if their car, their vehicles could do it and then we explain them about the hybrid the benefits of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t the first time the F-150 PowerBoost came to the rescue in this kind of situation. Shortly after it went on sale last fall it went viral for being used as a generator during the Texas blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>Thiruvengadam and Shailendra had even used it for this purpose before.<\/p>\n<p>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a power outage earlier during the year in Royal Oak and we used it to run a refrigerator and some of the smaller appliances things like that,&#8221; Thiruvengadam said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/e5dbdde6-f89f-4ee2-8a2b-f7eecd027627\/295ea22c-a91c-4a17-b274-5198f0494302\/1280x720\/match\/720\/405\/image.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Electric Ford F-150 Lightning revealed\"> Video<\/p>\n<p>Non hybrid F-150s are also available with less powerful generator features, while Ford has started to advertise the upcoming all-electric F-150 Lightning&#8217;s ability to power an entire home during a power outage and will be selling an accessory for it to make it easy to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>close Video See it: Ford F-150 hybrid saves wedding during power outage A Ford engineer saved the night with his F-150 PowerBoost hybrid when the electricity went out at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}