F150 Lightning
#316
Pole Position
No one knows the truck market as well as Ford, because they sell more of them than any other competitor. They built what actual customers want.
#317
Lexus Test Driver
Originally Posted by swajames
To add to this, the article suggested that 75% tow "one time per year or less", and that 70% go off road "one time per year or less". We can be reasonably sure that many of these responses were, in fact, in the "or less" category - in other words, never. The survey wording gave an out to those customers, likely the majority, who get these because of what they can do, not necessarily what they will do. As evidenced by the fact that even in the best case scenario, the survey data indicated that the vast majority of owners would tow or go off road just once per year. That was, of course, the entire point of the article, and the reason for the cowboy costume reference.
No one knows the truck market as well as Ford, because they sell more of them than any other competitor. They built what actual customers want.
No one knows the truck market as well as Ford, because they sell more of them than any other competitor. They built what actual customers want.
#318
Forum Administrator
iTrader: (2)
I get anxious just pulling in to the fuel pumps to get diesel when towing this thing. I suspect many charging locations are going to be tough to use with a trailer.
#320
Lexus Champion
Oh yeah lol, I want to see you pull into a supercharger with a 28 ft trailer like mine, lol. This is going to be a brave new world with the addition of trucks and trailers at the charger stations for EV folks who use them .
I get anxious just pulling in to the fuel pumps to get diesel when towing this thing. I suspect many charging locations are going to be tough to use with a trailer.
I get anxious just pulling in to the fuel pumps to get diesel when towing this thing. I suspect many charging locations are going to be tough to use with a trailer.
#321
Pole Position
I think what this thread really shows is how unfair of Ford it was to build something that only met most customers' needs most of the time.
What about people who might have a slightly different use case? What are they going to do?
If only other manufacturers made trucks with different powerplants. That would probably solve the problem. I wonder why no one else seems to have thought of that.
What about people who might have a slightly different use case? What are they going to do?
If only other manufacturers made trucks with different powerplants. That would probably solve the problem. I wonder why no one else seems to have thought of that.
#322
Lexus Champion
#323
Lexus Champion
Depends on how far you have to drive to camp.
You don't realize how much battery capacity something like this has for uses such as running lights or a refrigerator or something like that. This will power your home for 3 days at 30 kwh a day, which is the average usage in the US. I'm a HEAVY power user, my home uses about 60 KWH a day, so it can power my home at full use for 36 hours. A full refrigerator uses about 1.23 KWH per day. Powering some lights, a mini fridge and a speaker system is no problem.
You don't realize how much battery capacity something like this has for uses such as running lights or a refrigerator or something like that. This will power your home for 3 days at 30 kwh a day, which is the average usage in the US. I'm a HEAVY power user, my home uses about 60 KWH a day, so it can power my home at full use for 36 hours. A full refrigerator uses about 1.23 KWH per day. Powering some lights, a mini fridge and a speaker system is no problem.
My house uses 8k watts normally per hour in the daytime with AC.....parents place is 17k per hour. They have a 400 amp service....
I think they use like 420-480 KWH a day yearly average and I know I'm at around 210-250. My backup gen is a 22kw and it is usually at 50% load or more when I test it.
#324
Lexus Test Driver
You are probably right it would be fine when just running small stuff....however it would not be able to back my house up at all.
My house uses 8k watts normally per hour in the daytime with AC.....parents place is 17k per hour. They have a 400 amp service....
I think they use like 420-480 KWH a day yearly average and I know I'm at around 210-250. My backup gen is a 22kw and it is usually at 50% load or more when I test it.
My house uses 8k watts normally per hour in the daytime with AC.....parents place is 17k per hour. They have a 400 amp service....
I think they use like 420-480 KWH a day yearly average and I know I'm at around 210-250. My backup gen is a 22kw and it is usually at 50% load or more when I test it.
#325
Pole Position
They gonna have to have a place for you to unhitch and park whatever you are towing and then go charge with the truck.
#326
Lexus Champion
You are probably right it would be fine when just running small stuff....however it would not be able to back my house up at all.
My house uses 8k watts normally per hour in the daytime with AC.....parents place is 17k per hour. They have a 400 amp service....
I think they use like 420-480 KWH a day yearly average and I know I'm at around 210-250. My backup gen is a 22kw and it is usually at 50% load or more when I test it.
My house uses 8k watts normally per hour in the daytime with AC.....parents place is 17k per hour. They have a 400 amp service....
I think they use like 420-480 KWH a day yearly average and I know I'm at around 210-250. My backup gen is a 22kw and it is usually at 50% load or more when I test it.
#327
Lexus Fanatic
You are probably right it would be fine when just running small stuff....however it would not be able to back my house up at all.
My house uses 8k watts normally per hour in the daytime with AC.....parents place is 17k per hour. They have a 400 amp service....
I think they use like 420-480 KWH a day yearly average and I know I'm at around 210-250. My backup gen is a 22kw and it is usually at 50% load or more when I test it.
My house uses 8k watts normally per hour in the daytime with AC.....parents place is 17k per hour. They have a 400 amp service....
I think they use like 420-480 KWH a day yearly average and I know I'm at around 210-250. My backup gen is a 22kw and it is usually at 50% load or more when I test it.
#328
Lexus Test Driver
Its about $45 a day if his utility was cheap. So about $16k a year. Must be running a large hadron collider in his backyard or something...
#329
Lexus Champion
I was going to ask the same thing. In the summer with AC and charging two EV'S every night, the max we used was 46 kWh. Ok, tell me what you guys are growing besides corn
#330
Lexus Champion
Base load is 8k watts per panel over there so 16k watts hour. We also have a lot of power drinking stuff we run, the computers alone each take 850-1200 watts when in use and they have 4 of them. Server blade takes the same
I rechecked and that's peak that I used to size stuff. Average is 85kwh for me and 125kwh for them but two year peak usage was the high figures I linked. I used the worst case scenario figures to size the solar so in winter with really bad performance the system can still carry the place 100% on its own for two full days.
My HOA doesn't allow solar so I was forced to use a gas generator, in theory my house is fine as long as I get gas flow.....if I lose it then I lose heat/hot water and the generator. Their place has a geothermal system so all they need is power, but a lot of it.....both houses are nearly all electric for everything else but I've already run a gas line to the laundry room and kitchen since I'm debating converting to gas there since it would cost less than 1/4 to run.
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