(Reuters) – California utility PG&E Corp is partnering with U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co to bring bidirectional charging electric vehicles to its customers, the utility’s chief executive said on Thursday.
“We’re announcing today our partnership with Ford Motor Co to bring bidirectional charging vehicles, specifically the Ford F-150 Lightning, to the PG&E customers,” Patti Poppe said at the CERAWEEK conference in Houston.
The pilot program will test how the Lightning electric pickup can interact with the grid to support electric reliability by providing backup power for customers’ homes in the utility’s service area, PG&E said.
(Reporting by Ernest Scheyder and Ben Klayman; Editing by Tom Hogue)
