Recent content by Howard S

Saw this one in downtown Albuquerque last Feb. photo is from my Tesla dash cam. It’s the one on the left.

Hey a little salt will act as a preservative. Ever eat salted cod?

I would love to do that but I would need to find the maintenance value for all vehicles and lots of owners will do their own work. Suffice to say in 3 years there is no real maintenance on an EV and ICE will most likely have only oil changes. That is offset by the cost of tires wearing out...

That is my next project to juggle...

Now that Diesel is over $7.00 per gallon here in CA, you can show off how much a truck owner can save going electric. I built a simple calculator to show how much you can save by driving an EV compared to a gas car—over a month, a year, and even five years. I kept it intentionally...

Not AI or A1 Steak Sauce....

At PNM in New Mexico I pay $.03 per kWh plus about $.04 in taxes and fees when charging between 10PM and 5AM. That works out to less than $.035 per mile. So for 10,000 miles I would pay $350 in Electricity. If I had a gas F150 with equal power that gets a combined EPA 15 mpg at the current gas...

I have the PRO with all options except the large battery. It's now 3 years old This was the first Lightning sold in NM. Only problem in 24 K miles, is the rear half shaft replacement for a leak. It's quiet as a Mercedes S class and rides like an old Cadillac. Very little degradation to the...

I was doing an electrical update to the 7 unit apartment building in Mammoth Lakes, CA. This is a ski resort in the Sierra Nevada mountains at 7000 feet. We needed to remove the main electrical panel and replace it with 2- 400 amp main panels. This required SCE, the electricity provider to...

Both were turned off automatically at my house. There is a setting to shut it off at different locations.

OK, so here is my back of the napkin or should say paper of my 17 day test between my 2022 Rivian R1S with the old large battery rated 131 kWh, my 2018 Tesla model 3 with a 75 kWh battery and my 2022 Ford lightning Pro with standard 98 kWh battery. So while I was working on my house, I didn’t...

Make sure you have fun when you’re up in Mammoth. After a storm I like hitting the empty parking lots and see what I can do. So far it’s been extremely capable up there. I remember going off road down by the Green church in my BMW, X5 and getting stuck for a couple hours.

One thing we should all remember when parking on a slope that’s icy in Mammoth. I believe only one wheel has electronic brake, if that one’s on ice the car will roll. It’s happened to me before so I put a block under the tire where there’s pavement showing. My truck almost slid down the...

From when I calculate, it looks like you have the standard range battery not the extended range. I used to do that trip back-and-forth from LA to Mammoth in my Ford lightning standard range pro. Before we got the adapter, it was a pain in the ass to drive up there. Electrify America was always a...

Good job ??. Just imagine if you were in my shoes paying $.03 yes, 3 cents a kWh. That's $751.03 for electricity. The asterisk is that rate is only from 10pm to 5 am. Just a little over 1 cent a mile. To put it another way take 71,000 miles, divided by 18 mpg which is pushing it in a gas F-150...