{"id":165987,"date":"2023-06-18T15:26:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/ford-dreams-up-a-roof-mounted-backup-ev-battery-system"},"modified":"2023-06-18T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T20:26:12","slug":"ford-dreams-up-a-roof-mounted-backup-ev-battery-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/ford-dreams-up-a-roof-mounted-backup-ev-battery-system","title":{"rendered":"Ford dreams up a roof-mounted backup EV battery system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ford-dreams-up-a-roof-mounted-backup-ev-battery-system2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/guides\/ford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ford<\/a> filed a patent last week for a roof-mounted backup EV battery system designed to give you the extra juice while off the grid. The idea is likely a pipe dream, but it shows you how automakers are getting creative in the electric era.<\/p>\n<p>Having a removable backup battery you can easily mount on the roof of your EV might come in handy while camping, off-roading, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In the patent, spotted by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightningowners.com\/threads\/ford-files-patent-for-roof-mounted-backup-ev-battery.4060\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lightning Owners<\/a><\/em>, Ford describes \u201ca backup battery for an electrified vehicle, and more particularly, a backup battery that can be mounted to a roof of the electrified vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford filed a patent last week for a roof-mounted backup EV battery system designed to give you the extra juice while off the grid. The idea is likely a pipe dream, but it shows you how automakers are getting creative in the electric era. Having a removable backup battery you can easily mount on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}