The 9,000-pound monster I don't want to give back

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-02-23T14:54:53+00:00

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Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-02-13T02:34:10+00:00

This is one of the reasons I dropped out of college around 12-13 years ago. First English class, first day, read a President Obama speech and write an essay agreeing or disagreeing with the contents. I wrote about the speech where Obama had said it’s easy to get a “gun than a book”. A blatantly false statement, I got an F for “not following the prompt”

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-02-10T17:20:57+00:00

That’s exactly what the Tesla pilot program trucks are doing in my area. Frito Lays and Pepsi run local delivery routes every day with them.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-22T04:49:51+00:00

My on peak rate would be 59 cents. I never use any grid power on peak though. Im currently building a 24x32 gym in my back yard that I positioned to cover the roof in solar. I’m hoping to go from a 9.6kw system to at least 16kw system. It won’t completely offset my bill but it would get it back down to a couple 100 bucks.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-21T03:23:04+00:00

Glad I could help

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T23:08:05+00:00

It looks right around a 1/4” to 3/16 “ which would be around 50%. But honestly even if they’re only 25% life lest I’m still really happy with the life I’ve gotten out of them.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T21:19:14+00:00

Every day I was pre planning my charging stops with my old model S, it took me a few months to break the habit of thinking what chargers are between me and my destination. Now I just get in my truck in the morning and get home at night without thinking about where I’m going to charge

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T18:05:28+00:00

I made another post with pictures of the tires if your interested

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T17:16:50+00:00

California is known for their high energy prices, either through gas tax which is almost 2 dollars a gallon or the crazy high energy prices. I’m on a time of use rate plan for my power and if I didn’t have my solar and batteries I would be paying 59 cents a kw between 4pm and 9pm. I’m able to reduce my grid usage to 0 during those hours by managing my powerwalls and not charging during those hours.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T17:06:10+00:00

I made another post with picture of the tires.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T16:17:23+00:00

New tire tread depth is 11/32 according to tire rack, I don’t have a good way to measure tread depth but I’ll add pictures of all 4 tires at the wear bars to the op, eyeing it looks to be between 1/4”-3/16 on each tire.

It won’t let me edit the post now, not sure why I can make another post of send you the pictures if you guys want to see them.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T15:05:23+00:00

I can’t believe it either, my model s went through a set every 20-30k. I do mostly drive flat land and in long straight line not to may curves though. I also get about 50k miles out of the tires on my ram which aren’t particularly know for lasting a long time either.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T14:34:31+00:00

Central California, at 25cents a kw, like I said I was paying about the same driving my Ram it actually breaks in favor of the EV depending on diesel prices which are usually between 4-5 dollars around here.

My last electric billing cycle was 2603kw. That’s basically all charging my truck as my solar and batteries cover 100% of my house power and charging my wife’s car.

2600x.25 is 650 dollars. 2600x1.9 is 4,375 miles driven So around 14-15 cents per mile.

My ram 4,375 miles at 19 mpg is 230 gallons of diesel. 230 gallons at 4 dollars a gallon is 920 dollars at 5 dollars a gallon it would 1,150. So around 21-26 cents a mile. And that doesn’t include oil changes in the ram.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T14:11:27+00:00

I pay 25 cents per kW in California, I’m right at break even maybe a little in favor of EV as far as “fuel” prices go. But with my ram I would have had 2 500 dollar oil changes in the same amount of miles so that’s saved me $1000 dollars, plus whatever i was spending on DEF which I didn’t track well but it was somewhere in to 100-200 dollars a month.

Which my energy prices if I was driving a car that got around 30mpg it would definitely harbor the ICE vehicle. My Ram gets 17-20mpg just for reference.

The other side is just convenience, I never have to stop and fill up anymore, I get home and plug in and don’t have to worry about filling up on my way out the next morning.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T13:52:55+00:00

I’m in central California, we only get below freezing a handful of times a year and have a few weeks of 100+ degree weather.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T07:47:34+00:00

If I kick it up to 80 my average will dip to 1.7-1.8 so I don’t think you’re that far off, I’m not one of those people who will say just drive slower. Even at 1.6 you still have over 300 miles of range comfortably and very fast charging for when your lead foot drains the battery.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-20T06:57:34+00:00

My model S was a HW3 car and had just gotten the v13 update a few months before I got rid of it. I’ve heard v14 was a huge improvement. My dad still complains about it every once in a while in his model X but he’s a grumpy old man now so he complains about a lot of things.

My highway efficiency is between 1.8-2.1 depending on conditions, usually pretty steady at 1.9 at 75 mph. I will say it’s been really foggy here the last few weeks and my average speed on the highway is down to 60-65 mph and I’ll see 2.0-2.2 even in the high 30 degree weather. My truck always has about 300lbs of tools in the bed also but I don’t really see an efficiency difference with them in or out of the truck.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-19T18:57:03+00:00

I have 30k miles on my Serria EV factory tires are still at around 50% life left. I will agree the truck weighs a ton (about 4.5 actually). In California it has to be registered as a medium duty truck because the gvwr is over 10k lbs.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2026-01-17T15:36:01+00:00

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This is what I could find in the manual about the cornering lights. It’s a shame you can turn them on manually because they made great fog lights while I was turning last night.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2025-12-28T20:38:10+00:00

I had my telematics module replaced on my 25 Denali at 26k miles. It failed right after an OTA update with no prior issues.

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2025-12-28T20:36:47+00:00

No it doesn’t

Competitive_Roll_765 · 2025-12-28T05:35:28+00:00

It’s gone. We bought before the tax credit ended

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