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Thank you, Daryl. I always appreciate input and passionate views. I do, however, veer clear of politics and religion for obvious reasons :-). I will say it is tough sometimes being an ev owner and knowing full well how much FUD is churned out on a daily basis - and seeing that this disinformation strategy - like tobacco and climate change before it - often works to dissuade people from the real evidence. I only hope my little channel can do its part to shine a light on how amazing evs can be for the vast majority of individuals. I really appreciate your perspective. Keep it comin'!

@@truckedupevs I'd rather it not be a political issue either, but everyone knows it is in Canada. No getting away from it.

Hi Bob! Great to hear from you. I think I'm mapping out your spring route :-) ! I'm not 100% sure on this one - a question for the Ford Forum or Ford directly - but I've used it twice overnight with no trip at all, nor any heat sites on the pluig or the outlet (I've checked). I think it is because it is drawing at 120v, not 220/240v. A tt-30 socket delivers 120V 30A (24A continuous) service, I believe, but I'm also not an electrician. :-)

Won't be 'dropping it'. I don't take kindly to demands. Bye.

I thought Norwegians were polite. Guess not.

Nice catch, Yves! You are 100% correct.

There are amazing options in China but likely only going to make their way to S. America and Europe due to tariffs. It's a missing segment, for certain. The vehicles that fit the bill are all expensive. I think we'll get there as more models hit the market. Does the Chevy Equinox or Blazer EV fit the bill? Both are closer to a minivan and are very inexpensive. I'm not sure about rear access space for the wheelchair though.

That is unfortunate news. I haven't heard of DCFCs costing more than gas, or charging at home being somehow inconvenient. Did you hook up a NEMA 14-50 plug and charge at Level 2 at home, or were you trickle charging at Level 1 off a regular 110 outlet? I wake up to a full ev at home and never have to use fast chargers. I guess she had really long commutes? I'm interested in the region you live where this is a big problem. There are more remote or protectionist areas where range anxiety is still a thing, but it is rapidly disappearing. In fact, as I drive all of Canada, only in two provinces on long trips, or when going into the least populated parts of the country do I find serious gaps anymore.

I found the same with co-ops in Alberta. As you go east they improve dramatically, except for Red River Co-ops in Winnipeg, which equally suck. Guess it depends on the co-op.

LMAO! But what I want to know is... Is it windy?

Don't those statistics really show you how few EVs there are? I guarantee you that unless the companies can make a profit at this, they will continue to make the over-priced high end EVs that the average person cannot afford. That will result in a lack of mass adoption. Now with the 100% tariffs against Chinese EVs and their components, the curve is declining in EV sales, no longer the juicy curve Ford & GM were anticipating.

@@ScubaSteveCanada The Linkedin article didn't make a comparison between evs and crypto; it showed that crypto alone was drawing more electricity than an entire US State. Furthermore, I'm not sure how you're overlooking the fact that ev sales are far outpacing ICE vehicle sales, and that world sales are doing nothing but going up www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024/trends-in-electric-cars

@ScubaSteveCanada - My comment says or intones nothing about the number of evs. In early 23, my Bolt euv Lt was $42,000 out-the-door, when the average price of a new vehicle in Canada was $66,000 plus taxes and fees. Battery prices are falling rapidly, and getting better, concurrently.

@@ScubaSteveCanada - I'm always amused when evs are called expensive (some are), when the best-selling vehicles in Canada and the US are expensive buy, expensive to insure, and expensive to fuel full-sized pickup trucks.

@@shaneb9160 I wonder how your viewpoint will change if you had your power limited so that others can charge. The grid can’t and won’t support everyone plugging in to charge. The govt of Canada has no plans to increase the capacity to the level needed. So if your power was being cut off regularly, to the point where you can’t actually charge both vehicles, would it be time to get an ice vehicle again, or just stay home more often?

@@SB-xu8pi What makes you think everyone needs to charge their EV at the same time? I've owned two Hyundai EVs over 4 years and the main issue in Ontario, at least, is the poor reliability of the infrastructure and lack of chargers in rural areas, not an overloading of the power grid. Edit: Also, many factories have been outsourced resulting in no need to upgrade the infrastructure.

We live 45 minutes from the nearest centre, poor charging opportunities, but our Tesla model 3 long range is our daily driver even at -20 and windy snowfall. We were surprised how easy it is. Where we live winter gas is a challenge. Everyone has gerrymandering cans of gas in their garages as backup.

@@SB-xu8pi The only threat to the grid, if we're actually utilizing facts, is from AI, data centres, online gambling and crypto - all of which are the fastest growing sectors of energy demand, but still behind Oil & Gas as the #1 increase in energy demand in Alberta. The grid can more than handle it, especially being that 20% of all vehicles sold today are already evs, and most charge at home, and total residential electricity use only accounts for under 7% of all electricity demand in the province. So again, false. Meanwhile, renewable energy development is being irrationally restricted by the current Alberta government, laughably citing 'environmental and scenic view concerns, as a protectionist move to the traditional energy sector. Meanwhile, O&G has been doing massive damage to agricultural lands and destroying massive swaths of 'scenic views' for over a century. So if you're concerned about grid development and expansion of cheap affordable energy in Alberta, it's not the Government of Canada but the Alberta one restricting the capacity, and it's not evs gobbling up the grid.

@@elainebradley8213 A little fact ICE vehicle owners tend to 'overlook'. Try getting diesel in many parts of Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. Thus, the tidy tank.

Nice! I am still incredibly interested in that truck, especially with the introduction of the new trim and the prices coming down. It singlehandedly ended the towing range worry for ev trucks. Send pics via email when you pick it up!

What good is towing to a Provincial Park or boondocking if you can't charge the truck back up? Have you researched the cost to charge? Almost as expensive or even more expensive then if you used an ICE vehicle. You need to carefully plan your trips and hope that the chargers you count on are actually working. Good luck with that.

I am very familiar with the charging infrastructure here in NB, Canada. I convinced the wife to purchase and Equinox EV and we really enjoy the trips we have taken with and I’m up on the costs of charging. I would have no problem making it to all the campgrounds we used to visit with my gasser and I don’t mind setting up camp and then taking the time to charge it at a fast charger prior coming home. If I was in the states it might be a different story with towing and the costs of charging vs. Gas. When your talking $1.60+ per litre and the truck holding 100 litres, it not hard to see the cost savings. If we were taking long camping trips and having to disconnect the camper that might be more of a pain but I don’t see that happening or it being a 1 time during the year event. My current problem is the charging infrastructure in Nova Scotia. It’s terrible

@@ScubaSteveCanada I suggest researching the vehicle they're ordering. Even the most expensive DCFCs are still half the price of gas for the same range. And his truck can tow an equal range to most ICE trucks, even at maximum payload, which is 12,000 pounds. Carefully plan your trip? You mean like diesel, where many gas stations off the beaten path still don't always have it ( I passed through numerous communities with none), to the point where if travelling long distances, many diesel truck guys rely on the app DieselFinder, to stitch their trip route based on fuel availability. Take a quick moment of research to visit the main page of Plugshare in your research and note the massive number of chargers today across the country, including hyper-fast chargers being installed, but there are provinces that suck, yes. Saskatchewan and Manitoba both have issues, and I've looked and planned for Nova Scotia's supposedly abysmal 'network'. I've driven to Yukon, Flin Flin and all stops in between with an electric truck with 150km less towing range than @havnfunb4, so I think he'll be fine. Their planning will involve jumping in their truck, because its onboard trip planner determines when the truck needs to charge, plans the best route, and preloads charging stops en route. Even if one charger is down, there is usually others available, unless in remote regions, where gas is of equal concern. The Silverado EV also charges at 350kw, which means the wait times will be minimal. Lastly, most campsites with plugs welcome ev trucks with rvs to plug in on site, something you definitely can't do with an ICE truck. So, as I discovered at campsites in every province I've travelled, I've woken up to a full truck for free. Luck has nothing to do with it. It does depend on region but, for the most part, especially with the Silverados incredible range, he shouldn't have a worry.

Thanks for always supporting me!

Troll with no evidence. Prove it, loudmouth.

It's a large part of the problem. The worst is protectionist legislation in the US that legally forces people to buy vehicles via a dealer. Tesla still can't sell cars in well over a dozen states.

Exactly. Data centres are proliferating at an alarming rate to process massive AI, big data, cloud, crypto currency, as well as online gaming demands, and is outpacing all other energy demands other than the industrial sector (which includes a massive amount of oil & gas). It's reached a point where these companies are building their own power plants. Thanks for adding to the discussion. I really appreciate it.

Don't forget how much electricity every pump jack uses. I think the solution though for not enough electricity is to make it nearly impossible to put up renewable electricity. At least here in Alberta Heavy /sarcasm in case it wasn't obvious.

That's amazing Roland! Do you mind sharing a little bit about your company?

Thanks as always for the great comments and support! I have topped 13k on the odometer; 11,800 of those are the trip. My efficiency has sucked, mainly due to the fact that I drove headlong into the worst prairie windstorm of the season, which continued for over a week - and no matter which direction I went, it liked to shift also and buffet my front bumper. Overall trip range is at 30.3kwh/100km, but the moment I left the prairies, the most recent 3k has improved to 28.7kwh/100km. The combined climate use, accessories, and exterior temp have average a paltry 7% of overall energy use, which is incredibly good, especially being the outside temperature is dropping to freezing at some points, and I am not plugging in overnight for the most part. I have turned off my automatic software updates to ensure it doesn't wipe all my data away. I'm using Trip 1 to track the overall numbers, Trip 2 for each province, and my My Trip - well, it's kind of useless being it doesn't give you an option not to clear every time you stop for coffee or bathroom break. I absolutely love the ride quality - being it's a truck - and the comfort of the interior is pretty impressive, being I' sitting in it for 12 hours per day. Thanks again, and chat soon!

Sorry James! I missed this comment in my feed. That sucks. Did you stop by for the tour Stop?

@@truckedupevs No: I headed down on my own volition because I could not find any information on the actual chargers. The website just says they are "fast" and compatible with a bunch of brand names. Plugshare was set to filter for sites with CHAdeMO chargers, so was not showing up there either.

Air conditioners, electric ranges, and refrigerators drew huge current from the grid when introduced. Even today, there are brownouts from overuse during droughts, etc. The gird was expanded and modernized as the use of electricity increased. This is no different. As mentioned in the video, if people are genuinely worried about the grid being over taxed, they should question cloud storage, data centres and oil and gas expansion, being all three are the fastest growing users of energy. Thanks for the comment, Michael!

Great comment, Kent. As I mentioned in the video, this tech has been demonstrated successfully in many applications - but there's a reason it hasn't been used in light duty vehicles. As Uncle Tony's Garage stated (ua-cam.com/video/aFFeJFfY35c/v-deo.htmlsi=OMDRGkadEimHEPHk ), the concept is a good one. The best option for range extension for a light duty ev, however, is technically still in a series hybid format, but instead of integrating a complex system, it would be to have an auxiliary port input to charge on the go, allowing truck owners to add solar, diesel, or tri-fuel generators along with additional lithium-ion 'tidy tanks' as aftermarket options, something that only impacts efficiency and range when attached. A small, efficient range extender built into a system is not the most optimal approach compared to the above, but if done compactly and creatively could offset many of the downsides of a fullblown series hybrid truck. The Ramcharger does neither, adding incredible layers of complexity, weight, and numerous fail points. A range extender should never need a 27-gallon gas tank, or a v6 for that matter, nor the multitude of associated parts required to house an internal combustion engine. The fact that the battery is a robust 92kwhs but only delivers a max. 145 miles at best (probably less once certified), speaks to its inefficiency. If all that added weight was removed and the focus was instead on pure ev range, the truck tops 300~350 miles, as demonstrated with its sister truck, the RAM REV 1500. The Silverado EV & the GMC Sierra EV both already surpass 300 miles towing, and at their maximum payloads, all without a gas range extender. At this rate, Ramcharger will be outdated before it rolls off the assembly line, but I imagine a lot of people will buy it anyway - that's if parent company Stellantis survives the next few years.

Thank you so much James! I really appreciate the channel support!

That's excellent news. I'm hopeful once I put tires and a small 3" lift I don't see the range fall too much. Thanks for the input!

@@truckedupevs I'd imagine the lift might change the aerodynamics a bit. Might be an effect there. Yeah 50 PSI on the LT yokohamas.

Thank you Thomas! Glad to have you along for the ride! My wife currently has a Bolt and really enjoys it but if we have enough money in the future, it will be replaced with a Model Y. Great car. Also, the Y is highly aerodynamic. Try driving a barn with tires into a tornado🥴🤯. The truck is more aerodynamic than the ICE trucks I've owned, but it's no Tesla.

Thank you, Lewis! Will do.

Lightnings charge at 155kw, according to both the truck and the Ford website. I have often reached higher. At Tesla yesterday, I was at 175kw for about 12 minutes.

I charged at a Petro Canada in Sudbury today and stayed at 124kw until I unplugged. Highly variable units at Petro Canada, and often they're down.

That's JuiceBox by Enel-X. Not sure who the underlying owner is, but the install were by the brand Juice at that particular Ford dealership.

@@truckedupevs Yeah Enel-X is shutting down all North American operations on Friday.

@@truckedupevs I talked to Bruce at Royal Ford. He explained that it was just "Juice". He apparently got the equipment directly from Ford.

@@jamesphillips2285 I thought that was the case. Enel-X's charger unit designs are different in shape and style. Good to know it won't be affected.

@@truckedupevs Apparently even Juicebox chargers are going to keep working for the time being. They got a lot of feedback over just "bricking" the charging network, including a NHTSA investigation after 6 complaints.

Congrats on your ev purchase, and I think you're right: Saskatchewan WILL fill in the gaps but not because of the government or Sask Power - more like despite them. Outlook's FLO chargers were 50kw. Was there a charger there I overlooked? Thanks so much for watching, and supporting the channel! So grateful.

All brilliant points and I 100% agree with every single one of them. I'm just leaving Sault St. Marie as I type this. A city of 80,000 on the Canada side - and only 3 working DCFC, all at 5kw. It truly is pathetic how these 'pumps' are not regulated, and reqiuired to be certified, calibrated, and maintained in the same manner. Gov'ts on every side of every aisle still treat these things as novelties rather than critical infrastructure. Not a single public dime should go to any charger install that does not include a binding agreement to the units uptime and reliability., That would be a step. Thanks for contributing to the conversation!

@@truckedupevs Need to take some prostitutes, ummm, I mean politicians out on some EV road trips and intentionally take a route that is going to give them the flavor of being stranded, struggling to get a charge, or massively delayed due to crippled or nonexistent infrastructure. If you never been out there and had to feel how helpless you are when you are broke down, or can't get fuel then it isn't going to seem urgent to you. Once you can personalize it by experience then you learn compassion and maybe something will get done. Happy trails my friend. Looking forward to the next video!

Along with the companies exploiting the 'green' play and then not maintaining their chargers like they do their gas pumps. Always great comments. Thanks again

@@truckedupevs Funny Tesla doesn't seem to have a problem keeping their chargers online and operational. Odd right? Something has to change for sure. The more I follow guys from Europe we were originally told they didn't have these charger problems, but it appears that isn't true either.

Absolutely. It's after midnight where I am now and I need to crash, but ask away - I just might not get back to you for a day or two as I am currently in post-production hell while also shooting the next episode 🙂 You can also email me at truckedupevs@gmail.com Thanks for checking out the channel from a fellow BC local!

LMAO!

Lol. You dont get it

My truck runs almost exclusively on hydro - I'm in BC - no coal or natural gas. I received no incentives. Same can't be said for every single processing cycle of internal combustion. The largest user of energy in Canada - the Oil & Gas sector, burns coal & natural gas to make electricity that then gets wasted in extracting, processing, shipping, and refining the oil and gas to then burn the oil and gas, which makes your whole statement quite funny. It's the most inefficient means of creating locomotion since the coal-fired steam engine, especially when you factor in that every time your engine goes through its combustion cycle, over 70% of all that precious processed, refined, energy-intense fossil fuel never makes it to the tires as locomotion. It's lost in heat, and through the numerous down-cycles of pistons, cam shaft, crank shaft, transmission, differential and axle, not to mention fuel pumps, oil pumps, serpentine belts, fans, power steering pumps, etc. None of which exists in an ev. 91% of every electron makes it to the tires in the form of torque. Even if every electron for an ev was made with coal, it's still more efficient from incubation (mining, manufacturing) to end use, compared to internal combustion vehicles. I can provide you numerous studies, both corporate and public, to back this up. Can you back up any of your claims? I guess you also overlooked the $27 billion in taxpayer $s that went to O&G just last year - and that's just in Canada, and the fact that the Alberta Tar Sands lost money from 1972 until the late 1980s and were subsidized billions annually from provincial and federal funding to prop up its 3:1 losses per barrel. Your 'case' is so full of holes, It really is a wasted effort to keep debating such obvious misinformation, especially as you fill up your tank with the largest recipient of public funds to private co.s in the last 50 years. The Trans Mountain Pipeline fiasco - one project out of hundreds of O&G corporate-welfare deals - took more public funds for a single project than the entire individual, corporate, and institutional ev incentive programs combined. Hey, here's an idea so you don't keep wasting so many people's time having to re-hash this garbage over and over again: Try using Google - I hear everyone is doing it.

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​@@truckedupevsI bought my 2024 XLT from am Ford. Love to meet up one day when you make it back to the koots. Thanks for being the ambassador you are.

@@Ranbuowsatrawarriar Absolutely. Reach out to me again in November in case I forget. Sounds like a local Trucked Up Coffee Stop is developing!

Thanks for the info! I think it's a newer install, but I might be wrong. Good to hear!

Glad you like them! Thanks for commenting!

Taxes between each province in Canada have a negligible effect, especially since all the other chargers are not having the same spread challenge. Even if we take the exchange rate into consideration, let's add 30%? I paid $1.00/kwh today in Ontario! That's 300% I have decided to stop using them wherever possible because the costs are frequently double everything else. Musk is bilking Canada for Supercharger use. Borderline criminal.

@@truckedupevs $1.00/kwh is ridiculous. I've gotta believe there's other forces at work here, Musk seems like a stand up guy. I don't see him hurting people because of a border. I'm wondering if there's some sort of tax or tariff on foreign businesses?

@@hieyeque1 No. We have other companies that are not Canadian all over the place. I just saved 45% walking across the street and using a slower charger at Shell in Sault St. Marie. I would beg to differ that Musk is a 'stand up guy' but I don't talk politics on my channel. However, I notice that any time anything factually accurate is said that just happens to undermine Tesla, suddenly it gets political. Red state, blue state, or 'it's the taxes', etc. As a clearer example, 9km across the border on the US side the Tesla Supercharger shows up in my app at 45 cents for non members. On the Canadian side, it's 75 cents, and then 85 cents at the next Canadian location where there are no competitive chargers in the area. Tesla is overcharging because it can, and thinks its the only game in town and, in some cases, it is. We need far more competition to step up to the plate because competition drives down prices, and that's not Tesla's fault - but gouging certainly is.

@@hieyeque1 No, Musk is a Fascist. "The Loops" are designed to block rail, so that he can sell more cars.

I agree. I’ve never seen anything over 40 cents at Tesla SC in Texas. I think it should be the same price pretty much anywhere.

Farmers matter, and often don't get the props they deserve. Thanks for the comment!

Exactly. We’re ALL in the ag business.

Thanks, you too!

Why all the 'leftist' crap? Did you not watch the video? I agree with you. Drive what works for you. 85% of truck owners - very few of them 'leftist fairy tale believers' - ever drive more than 100km in a day, and that includes a lion's share of the trucks on the road in Alberta. If someone needs to haul heavy loads, tow flatbeds into the bush and do it day in, day out, an ev truck would be a dumb move. Diesel all the way. But most truck owners in Canada & US aren't doing what you do. I personally know of several companies who have diesels for the heavy, long haul work and Lightnings for the short haul work, and their biz is saving piles of $. Ease up on the vitriol, brother. No one is coming for your precious truck.

That's kind of a rhetorical question. I could spin that around on anyone and ask, "Did you really need an ICE truck? Of did you just have big-truck-diesel-envy to drive back and forth to the grocery store and Walmart?" It's a superior vehicle in many respects, and proved much cheaper to operate for my business. I went from $160 for the PowerStroke, to $105 for the 2007 Ranger, to $10 for the Lightning. It's a no-brainer for small business. And regarding my old ICE truck age and condition, here: ua-cam.com/video/y1em9kLdRuM/v-deo.html

ICE truck owners are flipping their trucks on an average of every 3 years, so there's also that.

Thank you, Lewis! I'm a pretty frunky guy...

It's funny. This was only my 2nd produced video (or 3rd?) and one I'm quite proud of. At 250 views, it's not exactly a Mr. Beast episode, but I'm thrilled you went digging into my 'archive'!

When I follow a channel I usually start at the beginning watching oldest to newest. I like your sense of humor, you have to listen and think at the same time...a lost 'social skill' these days. On a rambling side note watching oldest to newest also helps the channel creator by adding views and comments and helping them grow in the UA-cam alternate reality universe (is that a real thing?) Keep those cameras rolling!

@@lewisrountreeiii2937 Wow, I'm honoured ("Hey Honey, this guy just said I have a social skill...")! Seriously, that's exactly what a tiny channel like mine needs to make a go of this. It's a struggle to start but I'm passionate about what I'm doing. I'll keep yelling at myself, "Cut! Okay...Take 341..."