Texas energy companies are busy restoring power on the grid after it was devastated late last week by a polar vortex split that dumped Arctic air into the state along with multiple winter storms. Even though a few hundred thousand customers remain without power on Friday morning, the risk of blackouts could continue for a couple more days to stabilize the grid. 

While the power grid remains fragile, and as we told readers, the grid was minutes from uncontrollable blackouts earlier this week, Ford Motor Co. is lending a helping hand to Texans devastated in one of the worst controlled blackouts in the nation's history.

Ford sent a memo to dealerships across the Lone Star State urging them to loan out the new F-150 trucks with an onboard generator. 

"Due to the urgent and unprecedented weather situation in Texas, a number of our local dealers are using all-new Ford F-150s equipped with Pro Power Onboard to help in their communities," a Ford representative told Auto News in a statement. "We're proud to pitch in to help Texas in this time of need."

The F-150's PowerBoost generator comes in two sizes, either a 2.4-kW generator or a 7.2-kW system. In the memo, Ford said 415 of these trucks are parked at dealerships that can be lent out to people and businesses in the community during this historic event.