Pics of Lightning Trucks Doing Truck Things. Post Yours! 📸

[The Weatherman]

Here’s the latest new truck thing for the Pavement Princess.

You may have seen her on a post I did earlier. “Pavement Princess Explorers the Great Outdoors “

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[rockhead]

Heating up the water to warm the epoxy so it will come out of the tube. Need to do some concrete repair in the cold.

Tugs at suspenders, pfffft back in my day we'd heat the epoxy on the exhaust manifold ... after the fire department was done we could get a ride back to town with them !

 

[BhamDCam]

Hauled about 2k pounds of firewood this past Friday. The Lightning handled it like it was nothing.

 

[USA EV]

Hauled about 2k pounds of firewood this past Friday. The Lightning handled it like it was nothing.

Yer fir'wud is funny lookin' ?

But I admire the density!

 

[Yubbs]

 

[RichB-HTX]

I got 86 concrete landscape stones for free and hauled top them 100 miles from Houston to our ranch out west. It definitely affected the mileage. No issues with acceleration or braking but either I could feel or imagined feeling them when I changed lanes. I calculated after the fact that they were over 1900 lbs.

 

[lazjen]

Not much by some of the pics in this thread, but this is the cleanup in preparation for Tropical Cyclone Alfred that's due is a couple of days. I hope there's none or minimal clean up for us after it passes.

 

[USA EV]

Not much by some of the pics in this thread, but this is the cleanup in preparation for Tropical Cyclone Alfred that's due is a couple of days. I hope there's none or minimal clean up for us after it passes.

Hey, definitely truck stuff, thanks for sharing, and best wishes!

 

[flyct]

Not much by some of the pics in this thread, but this is the cleanup in preparation for Tropical Cyclone Alfred that's due is a couple of days. I hope there's none or minimal clean up for us after it passes.

Hope you have a good outcome with Alfred.

Here is our Lightning loaded to evacuate before Hurricane Milton last October.

And here is the aftermath where our Pool Screen Cage got destroyed.

 

[lazjen]

I'm charging up in preparation. Although the power supply from the vehicle isn't Australian voltage, we've got some gear that can take the voltage range, including our portable induction stovetop. So in conjunction with the house Powerwall (which can be topped up with solar after the event), we should be able to ride out the anticipated power outages in off grid mode. Anyway, if any thing happens (just under 2 days to go to crossing), I'll make another post elsewhere about the experiences and not divert this one further.

 

[USA EV]

Hooray! Spring is springing! 55F today. Picked up some free pallets using our little Harbor Freight trailer. Got 2.4 miles/kwh unladen on the 60 miles there and 2.0 mi/kwh on the way back with the pallets. (All 55 MPH and under.) Zero range anxiety, left with 95% charge, got back with 33%, yay Spring!

 

[flyct]

I'm charging up in preparation. Although the power supply from the vehicle isn't Australian voltage, we've got some gear that can take the voltage range, including our portable induction stovetop. So in conjunction with the house Powerwall (which can be topped up with solar after the event), we should be able to ride out the anticipated power outages in off grid mode. Anyway, if any thing happens (just under 2 days to go to crossing), I'll make another post elsewhere about the experiences and not divert this one further.

@lazjen
how did you make out with Cyclone Alfred.

 

[Eastbaylightning]

Went to Costco to buy some eggs, came out with 2 upright freezers!!

 

[lazjen]

@lazjen
how did you make out with Cyclone Alfred.

Thankfully, it was anticlimactic. Most of the effects were further south. Better to be prepared than not. Over 330000 homes were without power, some for over a week. However, we didn't lose power at all.

 

[K6CCC]

My Lightning up at a local 2-way radio site. The site lost utility power a few days ago and our site generator was not working. We temporarily had two 2 KW Honda generators keeping the site battery charged. But those needed to be fueled regularly. This was a trip up to fuel the temporary generators. However a luck would have it, the utility power restored about an hour after I arrived, so I removed the two Honda generators are the extension cords I had used.

What gets better was that there are eight battery chargers and each generator could power one. However when I was at the site each trip, I could power three chargers from the inverters in the truck in order to get an extra 100 AH or so into the battery. Although the photo shows a nice day, the first two days, it had been raining and the road was really muddy.

Got to admit that it felt weird driving an electric truck into a gas station to buy gas for the generators.

For the technically curious, the site battery is 4,400 AH at 12 volts, or 52.8 KWH. That is good for about a day and a half.

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