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  1. SpaceEVDriver

    The Garage (What did you work on today?)

    How’s the bike riding going?
  2. SpaceEVDriver

    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Over on the Lightning forum, an owner’s truck was in an accident and they expect to have to get a new truck. So, of course, the question is which truck would “you” get to replace a wrecked Lightning. This is a heavily biased sampling, of course. People on forums can never be a representative...
  3. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    If someone wants to double-check my math and/or give me better guesses for efficiency of the Harvester, I’m totally open to it, of course. I did check my estimates against @Logan’s and if you extend Logan's math to 15,000 miles, we get similar results.
  4. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    If the Scout were only used for that commute, this is the better way to estimate it. One caveat is that the Harvester *will* run sometimes. It needs to run to maintain its health, so there will be a slight extra cost of fuel even if the vehicle never goes far enough to “need” the engine.
  5. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    $0.74/mile for the F-150. The Harvester will be going 500 miles per tank, 150 on electricity and 350 on gas. You stated your electricity is $0.16/kWh. Let’s assume a 2.4 miles/kWh average like the Lightning and maybe something equivalent to 30 mpg for the gasoline engine. 150 miles / 2.4...
  6. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    Yep. I think we talked about this in another thread. I have a spreadsheet that runs up to a million scenarios to model as many possible scenarios as I can. I recently ran it for someone who lives in Seattle considering two very different vehicles: A $55k Subaru Outback ICE or a $116k Rivian...
  7. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    Assuming no road trips and prices stay the same... $200 saved per 2170 miles. When you get to 75,000 miles: $200 * (75,000/2170) = $6,912.44
  8. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    They may be including the huge discounts on used Teslas since nobody’s buying them. ;)
  9. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    A more true estimate would be closer to $15-$20k in savings, but I don’t have the receipts at my fingertips.
  10. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    Note that I’ve been very generous to the ICE calculations here: We had a Golf Alltrack before the Mustang and it got 22 mpg. I assumed low gas prices. We have had a LOT of free DCFC or other very cheap road trip charging; it’s only in the past nine months or so that the prices of DCFC have...
  11. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    I haven’t tracked every fill-up for gas in a long, long time, and I’ve stopped paying attention to the cost of gas, so I can only estimate. I estimate that we’ve done about 50% road trips and 50% local driving, but I’m not certain of that—I’d have to go back through my logs. This is not...
  12. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    It won’t be six weeks of vacation. It’ll be 2 weeks of 50-75% working, 2 weeks of full-time working, and no more than 2 weeks of truly time-off vacation.
  13. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    Probably around six weeks.
  14. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    After so many road trips, none of the EV-related aspects give me anxiety. There are so many charging stations along this route that we have backups for the backups. And we’ll be starting every travel day at 100%. The flexibility we’ll be planning (half-day of travel many days) means if anything...
  15. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    We’ve been to Chicago and love the city and are eagerly looking to go back. I’ve been to St. Louis, but didn’t have a chance to explore the city. We’re not sure when we’re going to go. It’s a long drive and would require some vacation time. And we would be meeting people along the way so we...
  16. SpaceEVDriver

    What's it like to take a road trip in a truck like the Terra (F-150 Lightning)?

    We’re considering a 5500 mile trip that would to take us from northern AZ to Seattle, Vancouver, Banff, Calgary, Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, and back to Northern Arizona. While in the US, we would likely drive for 4-6 hours and then stop to do half a...
  17. SpaceEVDriver

    Plug in hybrid.

    Agreed. I’m glad Scout’s taking advantage of those options. It gives me confidence that for the BEV there will have been similar exploration of options that might have been left on the table by another company or other team of engineers who are used to doing things a particular way. It’s good...
  18. SpaceEVDriver

    Plug in hybrid.

    Fantastic. Not all plug-in hybrids will allow running on pure EV without fuel. I'm happy to hear Scout is planning for this kind of possibility.
  19. SpaceEVDriver

    59 Months (and counting) of EV driving...

    I grew up with only junkers (literally only had vehicles that we restored from junkyards). So walking long distances because of a breakdown, running out of fuel, or whatever is something I have a lot of experience with. I haven't had such an issue in more that 2 decades, but it's not a prospect...
  20. SpaceEVDriver

    59 Months (and counting) of EV driving...

    We’ve been running the Mustang’s battery down without recharging for our semi-annual, not-in-the-manual, probably only somewhat important Battery Management System recondition. Lithium batteries don’t have “memory” the way old lead-acid batteries did. But new technology to track the state of...
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