Every EV That Doubles as a Power Source: The V2L Rundown

Electric vehicles carry some of the largest battery packs on the road, and a growing number of them let owners tap into that reserve to run everyday appliances. Known as vehicle-to-load, or V2L, the feature turns a car into a rolling generator: plug a fridge, a power tool or a campsite setup into a household-style socket and the pack supplies the juice. It differs from vehicle-to-home setups, which wire the battery into a building through a bidirectional charger, and from vehicle-to-grid arrangements that push electricity back into the utility network.

Outlets in cars are hardly new, but the ability to deliver serious wattage without idling an engine is something only battery-electric models manage cleanly. Among GM’s offerings, the Cadillac Escalade IQ stands out with as many as three household sockets totaling 400 watts, while the Lyriq and Vistiq each carry a single 110-volt, 150-watt outlet. The Optiq has one outlet in the rear cabin. The Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX, both built on GM’s Ultium platform, include a 110-volt, 150-watt socket in the rear passenger area — something the platform-mate Chevrolet Blazer EV does not offer. The Blazer EV, Equinox EV and Optiq skip V2L but can still feed a home through GM’s PowerShift charger and Vehicle-to-Home Enablement Kit, and some GM models accept an accessory Power Bar that draws up to 3 kW from the main pack.

Big pickups and vans lead on raw output. The Chevrolet Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV each push 7.2 kW through up to five household outlets plus a 240-volt bed port. Chevy’s BrightDrop 400 and 600 delivery vans provide two 110-volt outlets for 400 watts combined. The GMC Hummer EV, despite sharing hardware with the Silverado EV and Sierra EV, offers just two 110-volt outlets rated at 400 watts combined. Ford’s F-150 Lightning, with the Pro Power OnBoard system, tops the list at up to 11 outlets and 9.6 kW, and the E-Transit van supplies 2.4 kW from a pair of cargo-area sockets. Tesla’s Cybertruck matches the 9.6 kW figure across five outlets and supports a PowerShare adapter, while the Model Y gained power export in late 2025 — though only the Premium, Performance and L versions, delivering 2.4 kW through two sockets via a mobile-charger adapter.

Hyundai Motor Group covers its lineup broadly. Most of its EVs can send between 1.9 kW and 3.6 kW through an optional V2L adapter plugged into the charge port, including the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6 and Ioniq 9, the Kia EV6 and EV9, and the Genesis GV60 and Electrified GV70, with many also carrying an interior outlet. Elsewhere, the Lucid Gravity spreads three sockets — frunk, second row and trunk — for a combined 1.8 kW, and the Porsche Macan Electric includes one 110-volt, 150-watt outlet in the trunk. Rivian’s R1T has three 120-volt outlets sharing 1,500 watts, the R1S has two at the same total, and the upcoming R2 offers a single 120-volt trunk outlet rated at 1,900 watts plus a charging-port Field Outlet accessory promising 2,400 watts once it reaches customers.