Come on guys. Obviously the real solution here is to get a diesel truck so you can tote your lightning around with you everywhere so you can still say that you're saving the planet because you own an electric vehicle.
Hell yes !!! I have a 2017 350 and bio diesel I make. Never have issues getting to the Tetons or saw tooth’s and I can pull my trailer and extra fuel without worrying about how I’m going to get a charge deep in the wilderness ha ha. I really don’t know how you can wheel in the woods with these things ha ha .
This must be an awesome thing to stress about in an emergency situation. Like, you live in California where they plan on mandating them and have to flee a wildfire but you can’t because the grid has been shut down for weeks and your car is only at 16% and can’t run because it hasn’t downloaded the latest software.
Umm. If the grid has been down for weeks, so have gas pumps. And since when does the lack of a software update render an EV undrivable? But yeah, Tesla supercharger locations generally have at least 8 or 12 chargers, and some have well over 50... That is, if one charger is broken, it's pretty likely the others are fine. I will admit that once, in four years of driving, I experienced a totally dead supercharger location - all 12 or 16 chargers were not working. But the next group of superchargers was about 10 minutes down the road, so our road trip continued uneventfully. The Tesla Supercharger network is amazing. The non-Tesla charging networks are... not nearly as good. Not spread out along main freeways. They'll get there, I'm sure. But how much longer?
@@Retired-Don you forget that gas and diesel vehicles don’t lose gas or charge when parked, also you can have filled gas cans around in case of emergencies whereas leaving batteries around for emergencies will die before they need to be used if they’re not charged so if the batteries aren’t brand new they’ll lose charge quicker and that’s even assuming that the batteries being stored could even power an EV
Yeah that was the problem the whole time, which was towing the trailer, in addition to their decisions to skip charging stations. Now is not the time in the EV era, to be towing a trailer. The battery capacity is not there for trailer towing yet.
@@josephfdent Are you serious? Its a truck, and they advertise a gvwr for towing. What's the point of even buying this, when a function requires the vehicle undeliverable. Cut range by 80% 😅 sell that junk and get a ICE. We're decades away from having the infrastructure to even begin accommodating these EV nationwide. Even at that point, with our neglect in this country those stations will up hold up and the same administration thats pushing towards this movement will wash there hands of it. ITS NOT GONNA WORK. Its not saving the environment, it's not cost efficient nor practical. I feel for the people in rural California that drives 100s of miles daily when the government stops sales of new ICE vehicles.
What's a few(hundred) extra stops anyway? 🤷🏼♂️ Just a little lost time, sleeping in the vehicle, or possibly spending a little extra 🍞 on lodging. Seems reasonable.
Dad, being from the 70s/80s would breakout his trusty ol' 1999 Dodge 3500 5.9 Cummins, hook up the rusted ol' trailer-loaded diesel-powered generator he bought at a Sears Closing sale that the wife said back in October 2003: "...why'd you buy that damned thing, Herald; it's a waste of money AND you'll NEVER need to use it" ...and pulls up, grinning ear to ear...just like a dad would, thinking to himself "...wouldn't need it MY ass!"
@@soucyno1 Yes, and you'll be stuck at home too because you'll not be able to charge it. Oh, enjoy replacing that battery and destroying more of the planet than my poor little ICE does.
This is so AWESOME! I drove from palm springs ca to whitefish mt and stopped 3 times for gas. Was a total of 15 minutes to refuel for the ENTIRE trip. Not to mention I can tow further than 50 miles 😂😂😂😂
Big oil sure as hell ain’t either, and we don’t get to elect their leaders. Oil costed $103 dollars earlier this year. It has costed this much or more in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2013, yet I’ve never seen diesel cost over $6 a gallon. Ever. Oil tycoons fleece is whenever they want, and evidently some of us are too sheepish to say something about it.
Only takes a minute to go online and look that kind of information up. Doing research before you shell out a boat load of cash is generally a good idea.
Exactly they shouldn’t force us to do anything the free market decides what people want to buy. Ridiculous shoving this false Enviromental emergency flag up our ass
I don't know but the last major hurricane we had in Florida was hurricane Charley and there were people without power up to 18 to 20 days so how would you charge your car and go anywhere to go get supplies if you don't have power for that long when you can just fill up some gas cans and pour it in your car and go
@@jloppyhotmail stuck in the past. By the way I have solar so that theory is Ruined. Nothing happens overnight but I guess you think we should just burn oil forever because the system isn’t perfect now. Keep doing the same. You realize coal plants are being reduced more and more and the grid is getting cleaner? Oils is dirty in the ground and then up in the air. When you find a way to reuse your tank of gas over and over let me know.
Set up little vans with onboard generators and charging stations with a credit card slot for the customer to pay: roadside rapid charging at a hefty price 👍🏻👍🏻
Can't wait till them there government people come up the hills to make us drive um and take our gasoline away till I get the still fired up and just make my own
"Hmmm.... gas stations every mile and half? Nah, thats too convenient. Lets get something that's so hard to find, you need a custom app to find them amd they take hours to work"
Well this sure makes me wanna go outside & rebuild the engine in my 1996 Oldsmobile. It doesn’t need it or anything, I just wanna make sure it’s going to last me another 25yrs or so!!
Have fun paying for all that gas and zero fun with that boring ass engine and couch cushion suspension. Also have fun looking like a wanna be small business owner that thinks they own the world and whose employees would sue your ass for everything the moment you inevitably violate their rights
If power companies has to have rolling brown outs, and black outs now because they cant generate enough power to cool your homes, how are you going to charge your tricycle.
@@the1spyderryder maybe we should just drill for more oil and reopen the pipeline instead of virtue signaling to the world about climate change religion. The politicians, Greta thunberg and their ilk certainly don't believe in it. Biden owns an awesome 56 gas guzzling corvette.
The worst part is the unpredictability of the chargers. I could deal with some down time, but to find charger after charger broken, that's a no go... Completely unacceptable. I ran my car on e85 ethanol in a state that only had about 9 pumps and I made it work for 100k miles until I moved out of state and no longer have any access (I did it for performance) but as much planning as that took I still didn't have to worry about pumps not working, it was about 3 times that I hit a non working pump (after someone would crash I to it) and I had to pull over, upload a gasoline tune and run on that.
Yes ma'am I got a back up plan 2000 Chevy 2500 6.5 diesel runs great on off Rd diesel pushing 300000 miles goes 450 miles on a tank plenty of diesel around here! Hope you enjoy electric trucks!! Have a great day!!
Yes, something I've never had to worry about in the V8 f 1 fiddy. On extremely rare occasions maybe a gas station as some pumps down, maybe even all, but luckily the next gas station is across the street, or down the road
@@mamoochie7392 you know they wanted to drill for oil on 50 acres in Alaska. which with the size of the preserve it would have been like closing down 5 parking spots at Walmart. The oil on that 50 acres could have lasted for about 50 years
@@mamoochie7392 tbats because it is unlimited. You can derive gas from several crops it's call ethanol. Personally I prefer bio diesel. A better question is what te you going to do once all the rare minerals that ar used in EV's run out.
Only if you are in the ruling class. They will still be eating steak and flying in private jets while us common folk they claim to be working for will eat bugs and ride bicycles.
@@kevinperry581 it's not that it won't improve, it's at the rate and at what quality. Have you seen our infrastructure? Probably not as most of us take it for granted. Do you trust your local bureaucrats to properly budget and plan and get it right? It's going to be a cluster. We already started backwards. Mandating EV sales, when we don't have the support system in place. Shouldn't they have mandated the support system first? 🤔yeah dark times ahead.
@@LynxStarAuto of course the infrastructure can’t handle it. It may never. This was about the vehicle and the range. That will most definitely improve. Tesla has chargers now that work like capacitors. They store up energy slowly to not hurt the grid as bad. They will figure it out. There’s to much money on the line not to.
I can’t imagine the anxiety, but am glad you guys survived. I bought an f150 yesterday. The EV deals were tempting, but I went with the 5.0 coyote for reliability.
i will NEVER own only an ev .... i might get one for the wife someday to run to work with once our kids are grown but i'll always have at least one gas or diesel truck
60% of working adults wont be able to afford one. I wonder what millions of pissed off poor people will have time for when they cant get anywhere and have no source of income? Better keep that electric car hidden from the angry mobs.
Girl, thanks for being vulnerable enough to share. EVs were meant for utilizing surplus/waste energy from the coal plant, not interstate travel. Proud of your pioneering sprit, though!
If no one does it, how does the technology improve? Sure, this trip sucked. But most of the time we are very impressed with how our EV trucks do on trips, especially towing. Most people who tow with an EV know exactly what they’re signing up for.
Lol I was gonna come drop some honesty but it looks live everyone else already did. Enjoy your 50ish mile per charge while towing, sure all the extra coal they have to burn at the power plants isn't bad for the enviroment.
That like a the mouth breathers her in California that are pushing for EV's. I'm 35 and fir as long as I can remember California has experienced rolling blackouts and guess what? South California is currently experiencing rolling blackouts. People aren't able to charge their EV's and people with smart thermostats in their homes are being locked out to were they can't change the temperature.
Been there, done that. Thank god for some of these really nice hotels that still allow for it for free. I never got towed, but it can be close. Plugshare is a god send.
@@explosivemallard8038 just wait till the government shuts down charging stations or can pinpoint your electric vehicle and shut it down because they didn't like something you said, or they don't think you should travel.
My gas guzzling Hemi always has a 18 ft car trailer attached to the back of it it'll give me 18ish on the highway at 65ish MPH. I've had it five years and I don't think I've ever taken it on a long trip empty (not towing) but 22 isn't bad.
I know the feeling! I had to go 2 blocks farther cause all the gas pumps were taken at the time....so glad that had 91, almost had to call a tow truck.
I love my lightning. 1 yr old this week. 27k. I charged it to 100% for the first time to check battery degradation and it showed 329 miles of range. It went up from the factory 320 !!! Half of my truck is paid for in the savings over feeding 27k miles worth of diesel fuel into my Mercedes sprinter . I don’t tow , the range sucks if you use the heater a lot. I will never go back. I will probably replace this battery one day for $35k and get another 250k miles. I love this damn truck
I live in Northern Nevada, and turned on the news, and since we are close to the California border, we get some California news. We'll, the news this morning is asking California residents to not charge their EV's during this heat wave. So how the heck are people gonna work etc. Wow, so the grid can't handle EVs now, what is gonna happen in 10 years when everyone in California is mandated to have only evs on the highways. Hmmmm , and they are not updating the grid.
I had the same probs with my new lightning pro. Twice I was stranded charging 5kW speed for 13 hours. Finally I replaced the charging point under warranty and it’s fine now. This week travelled from SoCAL to Michigan passing through North Platte and no problems… so far
My best friends bought 2 hybrid Hondas, one for each of them. When the batteries starting getting weak and they found out how expensive 2 replacements were, they traded them both in on 2 new efficient gasoline vehicles by a different manufacturer.
Loved his speech last week. Red background and two marines standing behind him all while he threatened half of America. Very 1930ish feeling. Like Hitler 2.0
We're not ready. CA is already having issues with it's power grid and asking people to not charge their cars as much. We don't create enough electric power to handle all of these extra batteries.
@@arthurr8670 already, dude I'm 35, I can remember rolling blackouts when I was 6-8. California's infrastructure has always had major issues because e ery major part of our infrastructure(road, water, power) was completed in tbe 70's. Or population was a 3rd of tbe since it is now. All of California's government is a result of over population and incompetent government. It's only going to get worse in 2035 when California's ban on the sale of new gas vehicles takes effect.
I mean you guys are the ones complaining you can’t get a charge when you bought a lightning which will go maybe 80 miles before it dies towing a trailer. And this isn’t new information. This was public as soon as someone bought one and put them on blast. Get rid of the truck and buy a gasser or diesel if you want to tow.
Good thing no oil was burned mining the conflict minerals for those batteries. Or that no oil & gas was using in absolutely any piece of that electric vehicle. Or that no emissions were created to produce the electricity used to power that truck. Or that no harm will be caused when you have to recycle the battery... Oh wait.
EA isn't having issues, this is their norm. They are mediocre at best and they don't seem to care. Nobody is leading the charge there. This is the most important time right now for them to shine and they don't....
With all this talk about electric cars and trucks and semi’s and bicycles and everything else, why do you suppose no one is talking about electric tow trucks????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
It’s like pulling up to a gas station and they’re out of gas. Companies like this should be fined if chargers aren’t fixed within a certain amount of time. Or they should be forced to reimburse damages if it can be proven that they are the direct cause of it.
I was working as a school photographer when digital cameras first came out. The company was started in 1923, the first school photography company ever. The third generation family owner said at our sales meeting, "if film had come after digital it would be the better, preferred platform." There was truth to that. Exposing film requires more skill than taking a digital photo. Film photography is art, digital photography can be altered after the shot. You can take photos over and over again till you think it's the best one. With film, you have to adjust for lighting, crop the subjects from the backgrounds, pay attention to eyes being open, smiles of subjects. With film every aspect of creating a memory has to come together when you hear your shutter close. With film you always have a physical product to hold in your hand. Imagine how many digital memories get deleted, lost on old devices, or never even to be seen. I see a similar analogy between combustion engine vehicles and electric vehicles. If ev's had come first, the combustion vehicles would be preferred.
Digital would still be preferred in some cases or to some people, as is film is today. And the same would hold true for electric, just like fuel will be preferred in some cases or by some people. It’s all a matter of preference. It’s cool that now we get a choice.
Small hint folks. The country isn't ready and the auto industry isn't ready for electric vehicles yet. Those of you that are pioneering this, expect some lumps and bumps as shown along the way.
Make sure you carry a gas powered generator for times like this lol
“Gas” lmao should just got a real truck
@@sharkbait4734 well I should have said diesel I will pull your trailer for you anytime all In good lol
Come on guys. Obviously the real solution here is to get a diesel truck so you can tote your lightning around with you everywhere so you can still say that you're saving the planet because you own an electric vehicle.
It would take 2 days to charge it up 😆
Keep it plugged in charging all the time lol
Glad my 6.7 power stroke doesn’t have this issues 😂😂
Hell yeah, what year?
Hell yes !!! I have a 2017 350 and bio diesel I make. Never have issues getting to the Tetons or saw tooth’s and I can pull my trailer and extra fuel without worrying about how I’m going to get a charge deep in the wilderness ha ha. I really don’t know how you can wheel in the woods with these things ha ha .
Wait until the cp4 fails. The cost to repair it will exceed the blue book value.
Should've just called someone to bring a can of electricity and you'd be on the road again
Millions of trees to plug into up here in Ak.
@@keithrominske4752 ???
Lightning in a can- L-I-C!
Make sure it is plastic. Nooo!!!
A petroleum by-product.
Big metal rod and wait for a storm. 1.21 gigawatts, baby!
This must be an awesome thing to stress about in an emergency situation. Like, you live in California where they plan on mandating them and have to flee a wildfire but you can’t because the grid has been shut down for weeks and your car is only at 16% and can’t run because it hasn’t downloaded the latest software.
This. Right. Here. .... totally going to happen
Umm. If the grid has been down for weeks, so have gas pumps. And since when does the lack of a software update render an EV undrivable?
But yeah, Tesla supercharger locations generally have at least 8 or 12 chargers, and some have well over 50... That is, if one charger is broken, it's pretty likely the others are fine. I will admit that once, in four years of driving, I experienced a totally dead supercharger location - all 12 or 16 chargers were not working. But the next group of superchargers was about 10 minutes down the road, so our road trip continued uneventfully.
The Tesla Supercharger network is amazing.
The non-Tesla charging networks are... not nearly as good. Not spread out along main freeways. They'll get there, I'm sure. But how much longer?
Gas and diesel fords require firmwares of the electronics dont work....
@@Retired-Don you forget that gas and diesel vehicles don’t lose gas or charge when parked, also you can have filled gas cans around in case of emergencies whereas leaving batteries around for emergencies will die before they need to be used if they’re not charged so if the batteries aren’t brand new they’ll lose charge quicker and that’s even assuming that the batteries being stored could even power an EV
@@Retired-Don Not if they have backup generators.
Like how he had to drop the trailer because it cuts the range by 80%
Yeah that was the problem the whole time, which was towing the trailer, in addition to their decisions to skip charging stations. Now is not the time in the EV era, to be towing a trailer. The battery capacity is not there for trailer towing yet.
@@josephfdent regular first gen vehicles can be problematic as is.
@@josephfdent Are you serious? Its a truck, and they advertise a gvwr for towing. What's the point of even buying this, when a function requires the vehicle undeliverable. Cut range by 80% 😅 sell that junk and get a ICE. We're decades away from having the infrastructure to even begin accommodating these EV nationwide. Even at that point, with our neglect in this country those stations will up hold up and the same administration thats pushing towards this movement will wash there hands of it. ITS NOT GONNA WORK. Its not saving the environment, it's not cost efficient nor practical. I feel for the people in rural California that drives 100s of miles daily when the government stops sales of new ICE vehicles.
drove from pa, to alaska like a couple weeks ago. if i had a lightning i’d still be in illinois.
What's a few(hundred) extra stops anyway? 🤷🏼♂️ Just a little lost time, sleeping in the vehicle, or possibly spending a little extra 🍞 on lodging. Seems reasonable.
Naw..... not if you put an aux fuel tank and a genset in the bed. 🤔
@@mikeb8342 if it isn't broken don't fix it right
Hey dad, I ran out of gas . No worries I got you son. Hey dad, ran out of juice. Your screwed son🤣
Dad, being from the 70s/80s would breakout his trusty ol' 1999 Dodge 3500 5.9 Cummins, hook up the rusted ol' trailer-loaded diesel-powered generator he bought at a Sears Closing sale that the wife said back in October 2003:
"...why'd you buy that damned thing, Herald; it's a waste of money AND you'll NEVER need to use it"
...and pulls up, grinning ear to ear...just like a dad would, thinking to himself
"...wouldn't need it MY ass!"
@@stevenbutler6936 And then you can't charge the truck because the generator has a floating neutral...
And then the tow truck will say, I can't tow you right now, cause I just towed someone 50 miles.
Use the gas generator... Lol
@@jimcarson2523 just attach it to the roof and boom extended milage on your electric car.....o wait California banned small engines haha
Thanks for sharing. Now I know what business to buy. Tow truck.
Just be sure it's a gas powered tow truck.
Funny how I just went to a gas station to continue my trip🧐😂
Oof! 🤣😆
Funny how by 2035 you won’t be able to buy your precious little ICE vehicle any longer in many states.
@@soucyno1 Yes, and you'll be stuck at home too because you'll not be able to charge it. Oh, enjoy replacing that battery and destroying more of the planet than my poor little ICE does.
@@soucyno1 Oof! The entire global warming scam is going to collapse, a republican will take California and New York.
This bullshit is over Greta lover
@@soucyno1 oh no are the older cars going to magically stop working? 🤣
Mount a mast and sail on top. Wind power is the future!🤣😵💫
😂😂😂😂😂
That and a Harbor Freight solar panel for the roof...
This is so AWESOME! I drove from palm springs ca to whitefish mt and stopped 3 times for gas. Was a total of 15 minutes to refuel for the ENTIRE trip. Not to mention I can tow further than 50 miles 😂😂😂😂
Scotty Kilmer will use this as a reference.
😂
see 5 minutes at a gas pump sounds pretty nice now doesn’t it ???
You pay roughly $3-5k in gas a year.... That's probably sounds nice to you too.... Now doesn't it???.
Sure does! Plus if they could charge it they would have to burn an hour or so. Waste of money
Lmao if “the government is my friend” had a face
Big oil sure as hell ain’t either, and we don’t get to elect their leaders. Oil costed $103 dollars earlier this year. It has costed this much or more in 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2013, yet I’ve never seen diesel cost over $6 a gallon. Ever.
Oil tycoons fleece is whenever they want, and evidently some of us are too sheepish to say something about it.
Electrify America is a private company
Subsidized by the government. Means it only has to look good on paper.
@@Smuffins42069 look how they vote and then stfu
@@Smuffins42069 you have amazing comprehension skills...
Neighbor has a lighting. Hitched his trailer and instead of 200 mile range he go 67 miles. He was enraged.
Only takes a minute to go online and look that kind of information up. Doing research before you shell out a boat load of cash is generally a good idea.
@@Ozzypup1 don’t try to pull a boat 😂
Forcing electric cars on us... typical "Hi, I'm the government, I'm here to help!" situation.
Exactly they shouldn’t force us to do anything the free market decides what people want to buy. Ridiculous shoving this false Enviromental emergency flag up our ass
No one is forcing anything on youbooser
@@DarthVader1899 tell that to California who is going to ban all internal combustion engines. That’s forcing
@@DarthVader1899 Care to explain?
@@yarrik701, Starting 2035, California won't be able to sell gas vehicles by law. Pretty simple, you can look it up.
I might start at tow truck business with all these electric cars coming out
While you're doing that I'm just gonna haul a diesel generator around and charge 100 an hour for emergency charging
I already have EV rescue and it don't require a tow truck 😂😂😂
@@Fastcarsslowwmoney just buy a f150 powerboost
Don’t forget to wear your mask while driving too…
Even when by yourself 😂😂😂
Rotflmao!!!
But but I might give my self the gonaherpaaids my mask also helps me 🤣
Love it! 🤣😂🤣😂
I'm triple boosted
Get yourself one of those gas Honda generators to tote around with ya just in case 😉
Duh……😂
Only at 2 miles of charge per hour.
@@mikea5424 you only need enough charge to get you to the charger. if you use it once it'll pay for itself in savings on the tow bill
I don't know but the last major hurricane we had in Florida was hurricane Charley and there were people without power up to 18 to 20 days so how would you charge your car and go anywhere to go get supplies if you don't have power for that long when you can just fill up some gas cans and pour it in your car and go
Also some of them EVs were having catastrophic disasters due to the flooding causing all sorts of problems and damage
Imagine the stress of owning an EV. I can barely keep my phone charged.
99% of them time you charge at home. Electrify America stations ruin the experience. Once Super chargers open up this problem will go away
@@krafter324 Yep. More coal powered cars is the solution. Can't wait to get a black lung card like my grandpaw.
Too funny!
@@krafter324 yes for an extra $10,000 you can have one installed in your home. That’s literally years worth of fuel.
@@jloppyhotmail stuck in the past. By the way I have solar so that theory is
Ruined. Nothing happens overnight but I guess you think we should just burn oil forever because the system isn’t perfect now. Keep doing the same. You realize coal plants are being reduced more and more and the grid is getting cleaner? Oils is dirty in the ground and then up in the air. When you find a way to reuse your tank of gas over and over let me know.
Wow all electric sounds great! Especially if theirs a blackout!
I literally just got a flex alert text 😂😂😂
I used to work at a gas station, guess what didn't work when the power went out
Where does the power come from..
The irony and lack of critical thinking in this statement is hilarious.
@@BAZZAROU812 my roof top solar panels
That’s it opening a tow company cus there’s going to be a lot of this going on
Set up little vans with onboard generators and charging stations with a credit card slot for the customer to pay: roadside rapid charging at a hefty price 👍🏻👍🏻
Sounds like the EV is really working out. 😂
Wow them electric vehicles sound amazing!
Can't wait till them there government people come up the hills to make us drive um and take our gasoline away till I get the still fired up and just make my own
Not!!!
It's an American vehicle so they must first rip off everyone into class action lawsuits before they'll fix their designed-failures.
Teslas are amazing.
They are but buying them right now with intent of going across the country with a trailer is just stupid
We knew electric cars have been having problems... so we bought one.. that's some common sense right there..
Wow, what a reliable vehicle for road trips!
UA-cam needs a laugh react button.
Just saw another Lightning getting picked up by a tow truck 2 days ago at a truck stop near Blythe California, it was 110 degrees
Wait til all the tow trucks are electric......
Fire trucks, police cars, Ambulance
@@izzydizzy1115 I think EVs only go 1/3 as far with a towing load.
@@turkovich530 especially when your mother's riding along. Dern truck barely goes anywhere then.
@@turkovich530 yeah there’s a whole comparison on youtube between the lightning extended range and a gas powered 2500. Lightning got under 90 miles.
"Hmmm.... gas stations every mile and half? Nah, thats too convenient. Lets get something that's so hard to find, you need a custom app to find them amd they take hours to work"
for sure for sure
Plus, when you pull a trailer it knocks the hell out of the battery life.
Or not work lol
Don’t forget you also need 3-5 $100-$300 custom plug attachments for proprietary charging stations
Well this sure makes me wanna go outside & rebuild the engine in my 1996 Oldsmobile. It doesn’t need it or anything, I just wanna make sure it’s going to last me another 25yrs or so!!
Coal miners love electric vehicles……they keep me employed!!!!
You know what gets me around every time? My gas chugging escalade!
🤢🤮
That's right brother let that v8 sing!
Have fun paying for all that gas and zero fun with that boring ass engine and couch cushion suspension. Also have fun looking like a wanna be small business owner that thinks they own the world and whose employees would sue your ass for everything the moment you inevitably violate their rights
I feel ya, drive 2000 gt mustang everywhere lol
Funny our Escalade got towed multiple times for mechanical issues and we bought it new. I’ve had an electric focus for 4 years and never had an issue.
I got a back up plan its called a duramax!😁
🤪
Weakest Diesel truck
@@gto6985 : No, that would be the 6.0 ps, 6.4ps, and 6.7ps. 7.4 ps wasn’t to bad in it’s day.
A generator or solar panels, would be more than sufficient
I’ll stick with my fossil fuel powered truck!! The electric 💩needs decades to phase in. Good thing the demons will be gone in 24!!
My Ford 5.4 V8 Triton never lets my battery go dead 😉
I'll stick with my Super Duty. Thank you.
Well, Pelosi said to get an EV vehicle.
N ofcourse, as usual, anyone who listened to the government yet again gets absolutely screwed.
Does that old squalling teradactyl pelosy have a EV? LOL!!
Yap this is going to happen a lot more and rolling power outs from to many people charging in the future.
If power companies has to have rolling brown outs, and black outs now because they cant generate enough power to cool your homes, how are you going to charge your tricycle.
Yep morons don't prepare, that's a fact, no generator, no solar panels, it's like not having a spare tire no tools or no jack, always be prepared
@@the1spyderryder maybe we should just drill for more oil and reopen the pipeline instead of virtue signaling to the world about climate change religion. The politicians, Greta thunberg and their ilk certainly don't believe in it. Biden owns an awesome 56 gas guzzling corvette.
Sounds like you really need to unload a Ford Lightning pick up. Good luck.
Why would we get rid of the truck? The problem was with the charging station. Not the truck.
@@AllElectricFamily the problem is the trucks fault especially when towing it loses range like crazy it won't of happened to a diesel truck
@@AllElectricFamily I hope you're happy to pay that tow bill I am sure you will get way more of those. Go dump that electric crap buy a diesel
Watching y'all's struggles makes me realize more of how I am NOT getting an EV.
The worst part is the unpredictability of the chargers.
I could deal with some down time, but to find charger after charger broken, that's a no go... Completely unacceptable.
I ran my car on e85 ethanol in a state that only had about 9 pumps and I made it work for 100k miles until I moved out of state and no longer have any access (I did it for performance) but as much planning as that took I still didn't have to worry about pumps not working, it was about 3 times that I hit a non working pump (after someone would crash I to it) and I had to pull over, upload a gasoline tune and run on that.
Between hotel and a tow you’ve spent the savings you had from not buying fuel. Genius!
My foward plan and back up plan is my 5.7 v8 Tundra.
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
One of the better trucks on the road..thirsty girl but anything with a 5.7 v8 is going to be fuel hungry..
Yes ma'am I got a back up plan 2000 Chevy 2500 6.5 diesel runs great on off Rd diesel pushing 300000 miles goes 450 miles on a tank plenty of diesel around here! Hope you enjoy electric trucks!! Have a great day!!
Just so you are aware .. off road and on road diesel is the same thing. All they do is put red dye in off-road to differentiate.
@@andrewstratton806 yes sir I sure do I'm a diesel tech for off Rd equipment it's 50 cents cheaper than on Rd diesel!
I must have missed in the commercials where they say you may have to pay for a hotel room while you wait to get your truck charged.
Yes, something I've never had to worry about in the V8 f 1 fiddy. On extremely rare occasions maybe a gas station as some pumps down, maybe even all, but luckily the next gas station is across the street, or down the road
Gee, good thing there's an unlimited amount of gasoline and we will never run out.
@@mamoochie7392 we won’t ever run out look how long it’s been here
@@mamoochie7392 look into lithium mining
@@mamoochie7392 you know they wanted to drill for oil on 50 acres in Alaska. which with the size of the preserve it would have been like closing down 5 parking spots at Walmart. The oil on that 50 acres could have lasted for about 50 years
@@mamoochie7392 tbats because it is unlimited. You can derive gas from several crops it's call ethanol. Personally I prefer bio diesel.
A better question is what te you going to do once all the rare minerals that ar used in EV's run out.
Yep, cant wait for the future. Its gunna be awesome!
Imagine being so simple minded that you think the future won’t improve. 😂😂😂
Only if you are in the ruling class. They will still be eating steak and flying in private jets while us common folk they claim to be working for will eat bugs and ride bicycles.
@@kevinperry581 it's not that it won't improve, it's at the rate and at what quality. Have you seen our infrastructure? Probably not as most of us take it for granted. Do you trust your local bureaucrats to properly budget and plan and get it right? It's going to be a cluster.
We already started backwards. Mandating EV sales, when we don't have the support system in place. Shouldn't they have mandated the support system first? 🤔yeah dark times ahead.
@@LynxStarAuto of course the infrastructure can’t handle it.
It may never.
This was about the vehicle and the range.
That will most definitely improve.
Tesla has chargers now that work like capacitors.
They store up energy slowly to not hurt the grid as bad.
They will figure it out.
There’s to much money on the line not to.
People are going to fight each other for a charger.
Never had that problem with my 3.5 ecoboost and it was a fraction of the price compared to a lightning!
I can’t imagine the anxiety, but am glad you guys survived. I bought an f150 yesterday. The EV deals were tempting, but I went with the 5.0 coyote for reliability.
Imagine a world if you will, where your vehicle is completely mechanically fine, but all the service calls for towing are dead batteries....?
Or get a flat with no spare, carry a generator goofball
Wow electric cars sound great. Can't wait untill it's mandatory
i will NEVER own only an ev .... i might get one for the wife someday to run to work with once our kids are grown but i'll always have at least one gas or diesel truck
@@Hard_Right I’ll see about that when OPEC chooses to make gas $15 a gallon 😂😂
Mandatory for who I have a old school diesel pick up theta multi fuel I can run on veggie oil.
@@explosivemallard8038 we’ll have a real president before them.
60% of working adults wont be able to afford one. I wonder what millions of pissed off poor people will have time for when they cant get anywhere and have no source of income? Better keep that electric car hidden from the angry mobs.
She has that clueless deer in the headlights look.
Girl, thanks for being vulnerable enough to share. EVs were meant for utilizing surplus/waste energy from the coal plant, not interstate travel. Proud of your pioneering sprit, though!
If no one does it, how does the technology improve? Sure, this trip sucked. But most of the time we are very impressed with how our EV trucks do on trips, especially towing. Most people who tow with an EV know exactly what they’re signing up for.
Remember coal, that's what it takes to make your electricity for your truck.
Not all electricity comes from coal. In California, most of it is solar, wind, natural gas, and hydro.
Lol I was gonna come drop some honesty but it looks live everyone else already did. Enjoy your 50ish mile per charge while towing, sure all the extra coal they have to burn at the power plants isn't bad for the enviroment.
Yep, big scam.
"Honesty", tell me you are ignorant of the science and math without telling me
@@Bremend "batteries generate electricity CNN and fauci told me so, trust the science™️"
Is that better, nerd?
I subscribed.
Mostly because I have a morbid curiosity about what will happen to your EVs and your philosophy on EVs as you continue...
Ah the joy of having an electric car
Takes about 10-15 minutes for me to fill up on fuel and I can get a snack while doing it hope u liked the towing fee 👍🏼
Good for you.
15 minutes to gas up? What!? More like 5 if you're slow
Don't forget the hotel expenses....
& you're breathing in polluted air the whole time.
Mine charges at work, charges at home, charges at the library, charges at Costco. Charges at sam's club and charges at most restaurants
All I can do is LOL at your pain… Please post more content like this.
Indeed lmao
That like a the mouth breathers her in California that are pushing for EV's. I'm 35 and fir as long as I can remember California has experienced rolling blackouts and guess what? South California is currently experiencing rolling blackouts. People aren't able to charge their EV's and people with smart thermostats in their homes are being locked out to were they can't change the temperature.
These people with their self inflicted drama. Then post it like any of us care about their whines. Comical gold!
@@thetrutha2177 I'm ticked to death of that folly 😂😂
My 2002 F-150. 5.4 runs great! Drives even better with new ball joints and shocks!
Been there, done that. Thank god for some of these really nice hotels that still allow for it for free. I never got towed, but it can be close. Plugshare is a god send.
Boy you're saving money now haha
Remember when diesel was $6 a gallon? Just wait until OPEC charges $10, $15 or $20.
@@explosivemallard8038 just wait till the government shuts down charging stations or can pinpoint your electric vehicle and shut it down because they didn't like something you said, or they don't think you should travel.
@@markallen4364 Most charging stations are owned by Tesla or ChargePoint (not the government). Try again?
My gas guzzling Hemi has never left me stranded 🤷♀️
Me neither....that 5.7 hemi gets 22 highway and about 500 miles to a tank not 150 miles like the fantastic ev truck 😀 👌 👍
👌👍 same
My gas guzzling Hemi always has a 18 ft car trailer attached to the back of it it'll give me 18ish on the highway at 65ish MPH. I've had it five years and I don't think I've ever taken it on a long trip empty (not towing) but 22 isn't bad.
Haha, my hemi gets 23 on the highway. 18 driving like an utter asshole!
Same for my 5.7 and 6.4. They definitely did it right this past decade or so.
I know the feeling! I had to go 2 blocks farther cause all the gas pumps were taken at the time....so glad that had 91, almost had to call a tow truck.
The backup plan is mount a generator to the trailer so you can charge where you need to
Love charging my cars on good oil coal energy 👌
Why no; you know they're charged by rainbow shadows & unicorn farts!
Silly rabbit, the electricity comes out of the wall! Duh!🤣
Yes, because climate change is a hoax, right?
@@damartimantilla Yes, but it's always has been changing. This is just a liberal democrat excuse for more taxes.
@@izzydizzy1115 he should stick his hand in there and pull out more.
This is what happens when you force the diesel-gate company to build out a charging network to satisfy their fine.
I love my lightning. 1 yr old this week. 27k. I charged it to 100% for the first time to check battery degradation and it showed 329 miles of range. It went up from the factory 320 !!! Half of my truck is paid for in the savings over feeding 27k miles worth of diesel fuel into my Mercedes sprinter . I don’t tow , the range sucks if you use the heater a lot. I will never go back. I will probably replace this battery one day for $35k and get another 250k miles. I love this damn truck
How many gas stations did you pass along the way? Usually those pumps work.
I live in Northern Nevada, and turned on the news, and since we are close to the California border, we get some California news. We'll, the news this morning is asking California residents to not charge their EV's during this heat wave. So how the heck are people gonna work etc. Wow, so the grid can't handle EVs now, what is gonna happen in 10 years when everyone in California is mandated to have only evs on the highways. Hmmmm , and they are not updating the grid.
kalifaornia will be under house arrest ,self imposed HAhahaha
AND CA is in the process of shutting down their nuclear plants. Get the popcorn ready.
Lmfao 🤣😂 a 90,000 dollar paperweight!
Wait..... Something the government is involved in sucks..... NO WAY?!?!
I had the same probs with my new lightning pro. Twice I was stranded charging 5kW speed for 13 hours. Finally I replaced the charging point under warranty and it’s fine now. This week travelled from SoCAL to Michigan passing through North Platte and no problems… so far
That’s a beautiful golf cart you guys have there.
Lmao
Best comment ever
A bad ass golf cart
Expensive too
Beware of electric trucks 😂.
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Not a problem with the truck. Imagine if half the gas stations didn’t work.
My best friends bought 2 hybrid Hondas, one for each of them. When the batteries starting getting weak and they found out how expensive 2 replacements were, they traded them both in on 2 new efficient gasoline vehicles by a different manufacturer.
Lets go Brandon!
#darkbrandon
Loved his speech last week. Red background and two marines standing behind him all while he threatened half of America. Very 1930ish feeling. Like Hitler 2.0
How was your vacation?
What vacation? We spent 2 weeks looking for a charger.
Gfym.
Wow.
This is how it goes.
I knew it was coming. Tow truck operators get ready 🤣
Tell all of your friends. We're not ready for EVS yet
Tesla has the best most reliable charging network. When they open them to none Teslas she should be fine.
We're not ready. CA is already having issues with it's power grid and asking people to not charge their cars as much. We don't create enough electric power to handle all of these extra batteries.
You do have to be smart enough to carry either solar panels or a generator or both
@@arthurr8670 When did California say this?
@@arthurr8670 already, dude I'm 35, I can remember rolling blackouts when I was 6-8. California's infrastructure has always had major issues because e ery major part of our infrastructure(road, water, power) was completed in tbe 70's. Or population was a 3rd of tbe since it is now. All of California's government is a result of over population and incompetent government. It's only going to get worse in 2035 when California's ban on the sale of new gas vehicles takes effect.
This sounds like a great ev selling point. Motel and a tow bill?... how do I sign up?
When ford announced these trucks, you already knew it was a POS. But everybody raved about how good it was going to be 😂 sure, sure buddy
I mean you guys are the ones complaining you can’t get a charge when you bought a lightning which will go maybe 80 miles before it dies towing a trailer. And this isn’t new information. This was public as soon as someone bought one and put them on blast. Get rid of the truck and buy a gasser or diesel if you want to tow.
(slaps Cummins with a big grin)
😂
How’s it feel to get out pulled by an F150 ?
That lighting will smoke any diesel 😂😂
I do love my gas truck. Less than 40 dollars a week and no charging on the way to the beach
Good thing no oil was burned mining the conflict minerals for those batteries.
Or that no oil & gas was using in absolutely any piece of that electric vehicle.
Or that no emissions were created to produce the electricity used to power that truck.
Or that no harm will be caused when you have to recycle the battery...
Oh wait.
Dumped my 21 Powerboost ! Went back to a gaser 6.6 L v-8
If only there was a way of pouring a liquid into a tank and being able to drive off in 5 minutes
And pay alkida with all your money.
Don’t worry about having to have a back up plan just get a gas vehicle.
To poison the air even further
Like going cross country with no spare tire. Carry a generator
Sounds like that planet saving truck is working out just great ,LMAO🤣😂😅
The joys of electric vehicles
EA isn't having issues, this is their norm. They are mediocre at best and they don't seem to care. Nobody is leading the charge there. This is the most important time right now for them to shine and they don't....
It's just dieselgate settlement chargers. Why would they care if they actually worked? They still prefer selling diesel and ICE anyway.
I couldn't wait to get to the comments.. they did not disappoint... good story I hope it happens to you often
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It will at 90 miles per charge.
And again, and again, and again, and again,……
1995 ford f250 460 v8 any day !!!!
@@donniecothern9842 just keep pumping money into the taliban.
I like to see videos that show how miserable are electronic vehicles
With all this talk about electric cars and trucks and semi’s and bicycles and everything else, why do you suppose no one is talking about electric tow trucks????🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Good ol ev life. Glad your doing it so I don’t have to. #gaslivesmatter
It’s like pulling up to a gas station and they’re out of gas. Companies like this should be fined if chargers aren’t fixed within a certain amount of time. Or they should be forced to reimburse damages if it can be proven that they are the direct cause of it.
I was working as a school photographer when digital cameras first came out. The company was started in 1923, the first school photography company ever. The third generation family owner said at our sales meeting, "if film had come after digital it would be the better, preferred platform." There was truth to that. Exposing film requires more skill than taking a digital photo. Film photography is art, digital photography can be altered after the shot. You can take photos over and over again till you think it's the best one. With film, you have to adjust for lighting, crop the subjects from the backgrounds, pay attention to eyes being open, smiles of subjects. With film every aspect of creating a memory has to come together when you hear your shutter close. With film you always have a physical product to hold in your hand. Imagine how many digital memories get deleted, lost on old devices, or never even to be seen. I see a similar analogy between combustion engine vehicles and electric vehicles. If ev's had come first, the combustion vehicles would be preferred.
Digital would still be preferred in some cases or to some people, as is film is today. And the same would hold true for electric, just like fuel will be preferred in some cases or by some people. It’s all a matter of preference. It’s cool that now we get a choice.
Small hint folks. The country isn't ready and the auto industry isn't ready for electric vehicles yet. Those of you that are pioneering this, expect some lumps and bumps as shown along the way.