Farewell to the Maverick

[Gonzo chris]

I guess I'm just not understanding how an EV could possibly power a home during a power outage. How MUCH power and for how long? Couple days/ Couple hours? No way to recharge the EV truck that is for sure. Reading the article mentioned earlier about the cost involved to even set it all up was close to $18K? Crazy. I have a Generac 22K at my home, had it for years. Uses natural gas (I am using) or propane. Will power anything I want all the time. I have a 50 amp plug for my RV also. A Generac can be had at Costco for about $5,400 and that includes the transfer switch. Installation, maybe $900 give or take. Done! Runs automatically. We travel a lot in motorhome and gone for weeks, sometimes a month or two, a power outage is not a concern. Generator will start and sends me a message on my cell phone. No spoiled items in our freezers or refrigerators. System does a maintenance run automatically twice a month for 10 minutes. The amount of fuel it burns while running is very small.

Well I looked it up and that price is a little bit exaggerated. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't get one of these systems if I had a lightning, which I don't, but that price includes upgrading your electrical panel from 100 amps and the cost for that was $9000 plus. I upgraded my own panel to 200 amps . Cost me a couple hundred bucks for the panel, I wired it up myself and my electrician neighbor connection at the mains. Plus this is California pricing by the company Ford recommends. I think the plan is to sell energy back to the grade when it's in high demand and make money off it you're into that. You charge it up at night when it's cheaper and let's say Saturday afternoon rates are higher demand is high you sell back. I have read much cheaper setups by people who are into this thing using a third party company now that's not with Ford but with other EV manufacturers. Personally if I had natural gas I would just have a gas generator. I don't so I just have a portable that I plug into a generac plug in the back of the house but in the 12 years since I bought it, super storm Sandy, I've only used it maybe twice to run the house.

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[JetFixxxer]

Totally agree. But hey, there's always that group that thinks electricity just magically appears out of thin air!

Imagine owning a Telsa, you have those who that who hate Musk and those who despise EV. Both groups go out of their way to damage others property.

You also have a group who are so against EV that they forget ICE vehicles experience the same (for the most part) issues as the EV.

We have all seen ICE vehicles on the side of the road because they ran out of gas, flat tire or engine component went Tango Uniform.

ICE vehicles are like McDonalds there is one in almost every town in the nation. EV's are like Whataburger/IN-N-Out not as many locations as McDonalds.

 

[Montana]

A generator of course...LOL in all seriousness, here is a good article on the cost of powering your home with a Lightning.

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/...yearlong-review-update-1-sunrun-backup-power/

I never noticed in the pic that FORD used for the Lightning, displayed in that article, the guy is using a chainsaw with a power cable lol. Sounds about right for the target audience... Just saying.

 

[First Sergeant]

Well I looked it up and that price is a little bit exaggerated. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't get one of these systems if I had a lightning, which I don't, but that price includes upgrading your electrical panel from 100 amps and the cost for that was $9000 plus. I upgraded my own panel to 200 amps . Cost me a couple hundred bucks for the panel, I wired it up myself and my electrician neighbor connection at the mains. Plus this is California pricing by the company Ford recommends. I think the plan is to sell energy back to the grade when it's in high demand and make money off it you're into that. You charge it up at night when it's cheaper and let's say Saturday afternoon rates are higher demand is high you sell back. I have read much cheaper setups by people who are into this thing using a third party company now that's not with Ford but with other EV manufacturers. Personally if I had natural gas I would just have a gas generator. I don't so I just have a portable that I plug into a generac plug in the back of the house but in the 12 years since I bought it, super storm Sandy, I've only used it maybe twice to run the house.

You are correct . My fatty fingers punched in the wrong numbers for the cost of the system. Still too pricey in my opinion though. Yes, I ran a portable gen set for several years, nice Honda 3000. But when living up north in Idaho it would keep important things running, but we needed HEAT! Rural area where we were, propane was pretty expensive. We bought the house with electric heat already there and a small gas free standing fireplace. moving down southern Idaho, much warmer here, but we have Natural gas, Way cheap! I do like permanent big generator, especially for when we are out of town. Peace of mind.

 

[Gonzo chris]

Well I looked it up and that price is a little bit exaggerated. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't get one of these systems if I had a lightning, which I don't, but that price includes upgrading your electrical panel from 100 amps and the cost for that was $9000 plus. I upgraded my own panel to 200 amps . Cost me a couple hundred bucks for the panel, I wired it up myself and my electrician neighbor connection at the mains. Plus this is California pricing by the company Ford recommends. I think the plan is to sell energy back to the grade when it's in high demand and make money off it you're into that. You charge it up at night when it's cheaper and let's say Saturday afternoon rates are higher demand is high you sell back. I have read much cheaper setups by people who are into this thing using a third party company now that's not with Ford but with other EV manufacturers. Personally if I had natural gas I would just have a gas generator. I don't so I just have a portable that I plug into a generac plug in the back of the house but in the 12 years since I bought it, super storm Sandy, I've only used it maybe twice to run the house.

You are correct . My fatty fingers punched in the wrong numbers for the cost of the system. Still too pricey in my opinion though. Yes, I ran a portable gen set for several years, nice Honda 3000. But when living up north in Idaho it would keep important things running, but we needed HEAT! Rural area where we were, propane was pretty expensive. We bought the house with electric heat already there and a small gas free standing fireplace. moving down southern Idaho, much warmer here, but we have Natural gas, Way cheap! I do like permanent big generator, especially for when we are out of town. Peace of mind.

I live in the suburbs of Philly and it gets cold but not quite Idaho cold. I had an oil boiler but replaced it with Mitsubishi mini split hyperheats that provide 85% of their heating capacity down to -15° Fahrenheit. After 2 winters not needing the oil boiler I got rid of it

 

[First Sergeant]

I live in the suburbs of Philly and it gets cold but not quite Idaho cold. I had an oil boiler but replaced it with Mitsubishi mini split hyperheats that provide 85% of their heating capacity down to -15° Fahrenheit. After 2 winters not needing the oil boiler I got rid of it

Yeah I know Philly pretty well, travel back to see wife's sister and her husband in Allentown, and you are right can get pretty chilly there. I had an oil furnace for a few years in the 80's. Heated ok and price was reasonable, but could never get that accustomed to that faint smell. Mini splits work great, especially newer units.

 

[Gonzo chris]

Yeah I know Philly pretty well, travel back to see wife's sister and her husband in Allentown, and you are right can get pretty chilly there. I had an oil furnace for a few years in the 80's. Heated ok and price was reasonable, but could never get that accustomed to that faint smell. Mini splits work great, especially newer units.

I know we're kind of veering off the thread subject but I'm in Bucks county, not up near the Allentown end though. Right near the Delaware River. Oil furnace was a lot more troublesome maintenance wise too. Always seems a bit like an old Victorian age invention to me.

 

[BostonMaverick]

Picked it up today after getting a full detail and PPF.

 

[Deleted member 5597]

Looks awesome!! Go Bruins! Go Celts!! Let’s go Red Sox!!

 

[Gonzo chris]

Picked it up today after getting a full detail and PPF.

Looks awesome!! Go Bruins! Go Celts!! Let’s go Red Sox!!

I don't know to my eyes that looks closer to Phillies red....

 

[ndmiller]

Picked it up today after getting a full detail and PPF.

You put PPF on an EV pickup truck?

Doesn't Ford have the EV truck shields (forgot the trade name) that Rivian developed for the R1T?
I thought they were licensing it essentially to get the tech out there to repel dirt and contaminants using an electromagnetic field.

Cool tech, I have a Dec23 R1T and haven't washed it since pickup with 10K miles and all kinds of off road adventures. Clean as the day I picked it up and water still beads like ceramic coating. It does reduce the range somewhat from 351 miles to about 325 on a long trip but you can see the bugs splat before the windshield and just fly over.....Rocks too, weird sound when they hit.

 

[BostonMaverick]

I have had several painted F150 front bumpers with minor rock chipping and pitting over the years. I expect it will be easier to replace film than deal with painting and blending several panels to match a freshly painted bumper down the road.

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