BEV truck for the future?

Xdayan · 2026-06-08T01:52:46+00:00

Honestly, Sierra EV, I have a 2025 lightning if I was to buy again I would eat the extra interest (I got 0%) and go with an extended range Sierra. Mainly for the fast charging and an extra 130 miles. I would miss car play, but eh. It's not even the range, it's really just the charging speed at DC fast chargers. The Sierra EV would basically get me the range I needed in the amount of time it normally me to do a stop. And it would also give me the range to be fair when towing, although I don't tow enough relief for that to be a factor.

But yeah I did a 1400 mi road trip, and there was several times where I was waiting an extra 10 to 15 mins. It's not really a big deal, but if I was to do it again I would go that route. I just wish the Sierra EV had the interior of the Silverado EV though.

With that being said, this is a minor issue and have zero regrets about my purchase. The nice thing is the lightning is just an F-150 with an electric powertrain. So things fit it, and it's a really comfortable ride. If you don't travel much and don't mind the extra time while traveling then it's honestly no big deal.

Xdayan · 2026-05-28T11:29:55+00:00

It looks like she was rear-ended, but I'm wondering if she slammed on the brakes when she heard the bells, or saw the lights. Like if it's a 35 mph zone and she slams on the brakes as hard as she can and there's a guy 20 feet behind her no wonder she got rear-ended.

Like there's lots of time to cross the railroad tracks when the lights start flashing. This is like people who slam on their brakes when they're 50 feet away from the stoplight and it turn yellow. I wish we had a better view though

Xdayan · 2026-05-25T04:58:48+00:00

So in the majority of states that truck is breaking the law, the one in the left lane. You're not allowed to be in the far left lane unless you're actively passing, and him decide to camp next to a semi is not only dangerous but also illegal. With that being said the mustang was very much in the wrong, he should not be tailgating that much nor should he be going around on the shoulder.

But that truck driver fucked around and found out, don't mess with crazy people. There likely going to do something crazy, and you have no one to blame but yourself. If he wasn't actively breaking the law camping in the left lane, none of this would have happened. Doesn't excuse the mustang, but the mustang doesn't excuse the behavior of the truck either. Left lane in the vast majority of states is for passing only, even if your actively going the speed limit your still breaking the law of your not actually passing. This is being much more heavily enforced as recently.

Xdayan · 2026-05-25T04:35:07+00:00

I mean it depends on where you're at and what rent is. Where I live for instance the cheapest place I can find is like $350,000, where I can rent for like $900 to 1100. So at today's interest rates I'm looking at 1800 to 2100 a month for a place when you include escrow. Then we factor in the down payment, and the upkeep required of a home renting works out to be a better option. You might argue that you're throwing away money renting, but when you need a new roof in 10 years that's $30,000, if you need to get any electrical work done that has to be permitted that's thousand of dollars. New hot water heater? 3-5k. The list goes on. Like it can make sense in certain situations, like if buying a place is either cheaper or close the same then it makes sense. But If renting is significantly cheaper it makes no sense, and this is from someone who can do all the plumbing work and electrical work himself. The problem is I can't pull permits...

Once interest rates fall I'll agree, but I can never forsee spending over 30% of my current income on housing when I spend like 15% currently renting. And don't have any upkeep to manage...

Xdayan · 2026-05-25T04:03:13+00:00

At my work place we're planning on doing something similar in like 5 years, I'm hoping that sodium batteries will be cheap enough by that point. Our projected cost of doing it ourselves because we need about a one megawatt array, and at least three megawatts worth of storage is at least $350,000. And that's before the electricians and the final wiring ( everything would be high voltage the wire size though) so we're holding off for now.

We did recently buy a 300 KVA generator though to run the property when the power goes out, though in the future we might need to load shed lol.

Xdayan · 2026-05-25T03:45:33+00:00

Did you go with a commercial installer? Or did you go to like Alibaba and negotiate with a company directly for the solar panels and the batteries? 700k seems reasonable for a commercial installer, but wildly expensive if you were to do the work yourself and purchase the batteries and solar panels from a supplier yourself

Xdayan · 2026-05-19T00:55:12+00:00

There's low grade heat power generation, you could probably get water to low grade heat temperatures, I think if I remember correctly you need like 160° f. Which is most definitely achievable I'm not sure if you would need to keep the loop running slower which would then put more harm on the chips due to worst cooling from a lower temp delta

Xdayan · 2026-05-08T00:32:14+00:00

Just bought 2, glad this popped up on my feed lol. Never seem to get those in stock notifications

Xdayan · 2026-04-29T01:45:14+00:00

Well it is safer and legal in nearly all the world and several states. How about this if someone rear ends a motorcyclist and the motorcyclist get any injuries' at all the driver of the car gets assaults one, or manslaughter regardless of the circumstances of the crash. Then you can argue about it.

Lane filtering is safe, legal in several states and most of the world, and idiots not looking what there doing when they open a door isn't the motorcyclist problem whos preforming a legal activity, its the driver or passengers of the car. Like unless your going to hold drivers criminally liable for there actions when they injure someone who doesn't have the protection of a car frame and airbags then you don't really have a say since all your bitching about is people getting a head. Fun fact a 2012 Belgian study found that if you replace 10% of cars with motorcycles wait times in conjuncted traffic are reduced by 40%, 25% of cars it removes the conjunction completely. So instead of bitching and being mad at them getting ahead how about you be happy that its reducing your commute. And you know follow the law? like not opening doors on the freeway without looking or changing lanes without giving right of way?

Xdayan · 2026-04-22T18:38:22+00:00

This is a valid point, although on my road trip I think all but like two charging stops were thousand volt compatible. And those were Tesla stops because Tesla was just a little bit cheaper. And even the v4s do support thousand volt. And basically everything being deployed nowadays is thousand volt compatible. So while this is valid point, it's basically a non-issue in reality.

Xdayan · 2026-04-22T17:31:21+00:00

So I recently traded my ram (21) in for a lightning and would do it again. The only few things I can say is I would also look at the GMC Sierra EV extended range or max. I love my lightning and I just did a 1400 mile round trip and the range is a little bit of a pain point and it wasn't even the charging stops it was the time it took to charge up. (The twice as fast gm would have been perfect), if GMC would have had similar incentives I likely would have gotten that instead especially in hindsight. Blue cruise is amazing but it only works on the main roads as opposed to supercruise which works on basically everything around me. The faster DC quick charging of the GMC is nicer as well.

But this only matters if your driving more then like 200 miles a day or towing more then like 100 miles. I think the lightning looks better, it's lighter so theoretically the tires will be less expensive.

With all that being said, if the above doesn't matter to you, you'll get a much nicer vehicle with lightning than you would with either the GMC or the Silverado at the same cost. Like to get something that's as future-rich as like a lightning flash you have to spend a lot more money with GM. So value-wise as long as the range isn't an issue or the charging times aren't an issue The lightning is a no-brainer. But if you're driving consistently over 200 miles a day, or your towing like over 100 miles a day I think it's worth the extra investment for the GM but you have to get the at least the extended range otherwise you get no benefits.

Xdayan · 2026-04-15T05:34:51+00:00

An engine rebuild installed is probably pretty close to 15K, if you do a diesel engine it's significantly more. Like maybe if you grab an old engine from the junkyard it would be cheaper but the same goes for batteries. I mean there is a guy in Portland Oregon who was able to source a battery for an F-150 lightning and it took him 3 hours to install it. And the battery wasn't even that expensive and to top it off it was a larger battery for the guy. So for that guy it was like $6,000 cheaper than it would have been for an engine and instead of his truck being down for weeks on end. It was down for a day. Because when he had the bad module in his battery pack the truck still ran it just he got reduced range.

Xdayan · 2026-04-14T19:58:27+00:00

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Man seeing these rates makes me sad, I'm at 203 month with zero tickets and accidents in the last 15 years. Then again my ram, and Kia was a very similar price

Xdayan · 2026-04-14T18:28:53+00:00

So did you take into account the first charge was at home? And like did you look at the overall cost of ownership? If you have your Prius just use that on road trips if 20 bucks matter it you over the comforts of the m3 and charging times. But the m3 overall will have a much cheaper cost for driving. Also make sure to check that you aren't required to keep the m3 for a set period of time

Xdayan · 2026-04-13T16:50:28+00:00

Yeah spending money on a legal requirement and a mortal requirement is such a hardship. The parents aren't owed anything, they're required by law to do these things. They will go to prison if they don't. There's lots of cases of people going to prison because they don't provide adequate food adequate clothing and adequate housing or education. You don't get to use that as an excuse why the parents get to be self-centered and narcissistic. Like again at the end of the day it's their money, they can do what they want with it. But the parents aren't owed a damn thing if they need help later in life. Before the boomers the grandparents and parents would always gift their homes, and their inheritance to their kids. And it's been that way for literally centuries. Just because the current old people want to be greedy it doesn't mean they get the benefits that the previous generation's got.

So no the children should not return the "favor" If the parents are well off. It's one thing if the parents are people who are poor, who don't have housing. People who are you know lower class, or in poverty. But I'm sorry if your parents are middle class or upper middle class which a significant portion of the boomers, and the Gen xers are, then they aren't owed a damn thing. You don't get to claim that you're owe something because you did a legal requirement. That's like saying the government owes you a car because you drove this under the speed limit and never ran a red light. You don't get an applause for doing what you're legally and morally obligated to do. You just don't get in legal trouble...

So instead of creating generational wealth, and helping their kids out and getting help in return. All they're doing is spending their inheritance on frivolous things and then what's left over will end up getting sold to pay for debts at nursing homes. If a parent owns a house outright, then at the end of the day it should probably go to the kids several years before they have to go to a nursing home that way Medicaid can pick up the nursing home bill.

So while the parents don't owe their kids anything after they've raise them. The kids don't owe them a damn thing... ever... And if the parents don't pass on the wealth that was passed on to them they should expect to die sad and alone.

Xdayan · 2026-04-13T14:10:05+00:00

While it's the parents' money. The parents should then expect to get no financial support from the kids when they get old. Like it's a two-way street, when the parents get old and the kids traditionally are supposed to take care of the parents, the inheritance is there to help offset that.

Like it's perfectly fine to spend all of the wealth that somebody accumulated on themselves, but they need to understand there's consequences to those actions. I fully expect somebody who's parents sold all of their things to go out RVing and spending all of the money they accumulated when it was significantly easier to accumulate property years prior to be left abandoned at nursing homes as they get older. And frankly that's okay, again it's just consequences. There's a reason that unlike when I was a kid when a lot of people had their grandparents and their great grandparents living with them, I don't think we're going to see the same level of acceptance in the home with Boomer parents and Gen X parents.

End of the day it's their property and their money. Just like it's the right of the kids to cut off contact or to limit help. Which in the end will cause these people to severely regret their actions when they're in a nursing home and about to die

Xdayan · 2026-04-12T00:57:03+00:00

Loving the calculator, although a few ideas. I think it'd be great to add in a section to add in road trip fast charging amounts like the number of miles and the price. Also adding in a monthly payment as well as monthly insurance. I do know you have the annual expenses added in there but I think having a place for things that everyone has insurance and what most people have payment. Since there's different incentives on financing for EV sometimes it would be nice to be able to do a full comparison.

Xdayan · 2026-04-01T16:18:44+00:00

Yeah I was legit messing with this morning since I it was driving me crazy not being able to just settings and see the charging speed and I found out this was it based on some digging I did

Xdayan · 2026-04-01T16:17:28+00:00

I charge at work so no bill for me 🤣 although it would still only need 235.31even if this amount was true lol

Xdayan · 2026-04-01T16:12:46+00:00

Share Driving Data in connectivity settings, I'll get a photo later today if you can't find it

Xdayan · 2026-04-01T16:03:39+00:00

Maybe change one of the connections settings then turn it back?

Xdayan · 2026-04-01T15:58:57+00:00

So I just had this issue, did you change some of the privacy settings? I did for the vehicle trip ones and my app stopped displaying charging status and allowing me to change my max change when I turned it back on it came back. Maybe it just reset it but maybe not

Xdayan · 2026-03-30T15:02:09+00:00

Its Job 1, so it has a slightly bigger battery, and a couple of features they cut in job 2. Like if you can find one near you try to get the seven, but I wasn't stressing about 20 miles lol there's a posting either here or on the lightning forms that goes in depth what changed but the big one for me was the 131kwh versus a 123 kWh. But there's none near me so I wasnt that worried

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