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Post by cyclist on May 26, 2024 7:59:44 GMT -5
Gonna hook the lightening up to the 33 Mirage and see what happens. It has an internal scale and it won't work, literally, if the boat is over the 10,000 pound capacity. Right on the edge. I can see many problems with this option, you can't turn off the scale but you can get the truck without this option.
My buddy the boat owner looking to upgrade from his diesel f250 4x4.
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Post by garycoleco on May 26, 2024 9:46:15 GMT -5
Gonna hook the lightening up to the 33 Mirage and see what happens. It has an internal scale and it won't work, literally, if the boat is over the 10,000 pound capacity. Right on the edge. I can see many problems with this option, you can't turn off the scale but you can get the truck without this option. My buddy the boat owner looking to upgrade from his diesel f250 4x4. Surely you're talking about a blow boat
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Post by mapper on May 26, 2024 10:11:21 GMT -5
Gonna hook the lightening up to the 33 Mirage and see what happens. It has an internal scale and it won't work, literally, if the boat is over the 10,000 pound capacity. Right on the edge. I can see many problems with this option, you can't turn off the scale but you can get the truck without this option. My buddy the boat owner looking to upgrade from his diesel f250 4x4. Thanks for today's "you got to be shitting me" post. BUT the F-450's are nice I hear. Tighter turning radius and all.
Post the towing and charging and handling results, and see how many chargers are availible and places that have room enough to unhook boat then charge truck.
I've seen tow reports, and long distances on a lightning but trailer was small and well within truck capability/capacity.
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Post by cyclist on May 26, 2024 10:40:03 GMT -5
Gonna hook the lightening up to the 33 Mirage and see what happens. It has an internal scale and it won't work, literally, if the boat is over the 10,000 pound capacity. Right on the edge. I can see many problems with this option, you can't turn off the scale but you can get the truck without this option. My buddy the boat owner looking to upgrade from his diesel f250 4x4. Thanks for today's "you got to be shitting me" post. BUT the F-450's are nice I hear. Tighter turning radius and all.
Post the towing and charging and handling results, and see how many chargers are availible and places that have room enough to unhook boat then charge truck.
I've seen tow reports, and long distances on a lightning but trailer was small and well within truck capability/capacity.
Pulling the 10,000 boat from gville th st augustine or to port st Lucie are all within range without charge.
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Post by Crkr 23 on May 26, 2024 11:43:45 GMT -5
In range, does that include the return to Gainesville on a single charge?
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Post by cyclist on May 26, 2024 12:13:08 GMT -5
In range, does that include the return to Gainesville on a single charge? He's got a house just south of Matanzas with a tesla charger. The St lucie trip would be another story, but only occasionally as a starting point for Abacos.
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Post by tonyroma on May 26, 2024 13:13:03 GMT -5
So if there is no charger at the boat ramp you’re pretty much fucked. Not ready for prime time. It’s hard enough to get out on the water. Last thing I need to think about is if I have enough bolts to get home.
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Post by cyclist on May 26, 2024 15:03:50 GMT -5
So if there is no charger at the boat ramp you’re pretty much fucked. Not ready for prime time. It’s hard enough to get out on the water. Last thing I need to think about is if I have enough bolts to get home. His gville home is 85 mile from his matazanas home and the ramp is 20 minutes from there. But without beach house gville to ramp and back on one charge pulling boat is no issue. Boat pretty much lives at matanzas though. No charging issues.
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Post by mapper on May 26, 2024 18:02:56 GMT -5
So, how was the 85 mile tow milage /power use in the lightning vs his oil burner f 250?
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Post by garycoleco on May 27, 2024 13:32:25 GMT -5
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was confronted by a CBS host over the Biden administration’s aggressive electric vehicle (EV) push.
Buttigieg responded to repeated attacks by former President Trump, who claimed President Biden is spending billions of federal dollars on an unpopular car.
"You notice he’s trying to save the electric vehicle but not the gas powered which is the vehicle everybody wants. They’re going crazy with the electric car, costing us a fortune. We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing a car nobody wants and nobody is ever going to buy," Trump said.
"He’s not wrong," Brennen pushed back. "Of the 4 million vehicles purchased, 269,000 electric vehicles were sold in the U.S. Market. It’s up like 2%."
"Every single year more Americans buy EVs than the year before," he insisted.
Later on, Brennen confronted Buttigieg on the lack of progress regarding EV charging stations throughout the country.
"The Federal Highway Administration says only seven or eight charging stations have been produced with a $7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021. Why isn’t that happening more quickly?" Brennen asked.
"So the president’s goal is to have half a million chargers up by the end of this decade. Now, in order to do a charger, it’s more than plugging a small device into the ground. There’s utility work, and this is also really a new category of federal investment. But we’ve been working with each of the 50 states, every one of them is getting formula dollars to do this work," Buttigieg answered.
"Seven or eight though?" Brennen interjected, giving a small laugh at his answer.
"Again, by 2030, 500,000 chargers," Buttigieg continued. "The very first handful of chargers are now already being physically built. Again, that’s the absolute very, very beginning stages of the construction to come. The reason that we’re investing federal dollars is to fill in some of the gaps in areas where it is not yet profitable for the private sector to do it. Again, the majority of charging will happen at home."
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Post by resinhead on May 27, 2024 18:57:54 GMT -5
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Post by conchydong on May 27, 2024 19:39:56 GMT -5
They will be coming for our pennies soon. On a serious note Hybrids would be a much better solution but for some reason the powers in charge don't seem to want to go in that direction.
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Post by resinhead on May 27, 2024 19:58:13 GMT -5
Thanks for today's "you got to be shitting me" post. BUT the F-450's are nice I hear. Tighter turning radius and all.
Post the towing and charging and handling results, and see how many chargers are availible and places that have room enough to unhook boat then charge truck.
I've seen tow reports, and long distances on a lightning but trailer was small and well within truck capability/capacity.
Pulling the 10,000 boat from gville th st augustine or to port st Lucie are all within range without charge. bullshit. Show pics of the ev pulling a 33’ mirage.
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Post by garycoleco on May 27, 2024 20:30:21 GMT -5
They will be coming for our pennies soon. On a serious note Hybrids would be a much better solution but for some reason the powers in charge don't seem to want to go in that direction. Exactly! A 100hp diesel hybrid would be killer, but muh planet....
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Post by luapnor on May 27, 2024 22:07:53 GMT -5
Locomotives have been hybrids for a long time
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