Chris Bowe was preparing for his daughter's ninth birthday party in February when a drenching storm knocked out power to his neighborhood in Hayward, California. Minutes before the party began, Bowe connected his electric Ford F-150 Lightning to a panel in his garage, sending electricity from the pickup truck to his house.
"It was dark out, parents were dropping off their kids, and our house was lit up," said Bowe, who works as a FedEx manager in the Bay Area. "They were like, 'How do you have power?'"
