Wow! What a bargain! Comments like this make putting in the incredilbe hours and resources into the channel all worthwhile. Thank you so much for sharing this info, and congratulations on your purchase - proving beyond a doubt that EV trucks are very affordable (and, in some cases cheaper than ICE trucks)! Based on the price, I assume you are in the US?

What a great post! Thank you for subscribing! Yes, it was harsh, but here's to my point. I just met a wonderful gentleman & his wife in Yoho National Park, BC, travelling in his newly-acquired Rivian R1T he waited over 4 years to purchase because there was no Rivian centre in Montreal. Once there was, he bought & proceed to drive across Canada into some more remote locations, which is what all Rivian owners will do, since that's how Rivian packaged & marketed it. You're right. It's not fair to judge such a limited start-up trying to do big things - but this limited sales envelop will not only hurt their sales, which they now need desperately, the logistics won't work anyway. When the control arm or suspension fails, it will be up a mountain pass in the middle of nowhere, and not in downtown L.A. There. My somewhat weak argument for being a dick 😜😀

Sorry! Just saw your comment now. Currently heading for the Yukon & signal has been 'dicey'. Thanks so much for the support! Let me know how it works out at AM Ford. Ask for Kelly. She's who I used.

@@truckedupevs Kelly is great and I bought a truck from her a handful of years back. This time I'm dealing with Kayla, she's also great dontcha know. Drove the XLT this afternoon, wow. I'm 90% the way there. Don't worry about responding as I know you're way the heck up the middle of nowhere. Happy travels good sir!

​@@RanbuowsatrawarriarHaving breaky in Watso​n Lake, Yukon! And they have cell signal. Chat soon

Ford really nailed it with this truck. Also, with that incredibly long battery warranty, you're still covered on the used one. You also benefitted because in 2023, they removed some features like bed weigh scales due to chip shortages. Sounds like you scored! Thanks for sharing your experience!

Hi NIls. Thanks as always for your comments & support! Blue Cruise is far more advanced than adaptive cruise and lane keeping. For one, lane keeping requires you to continue to hold the steering wheel, and is not actually tracking mapping like Blue Cruise. So, that's all you will lose. When your subscription expires, you'll still have lane keeping assist and Adaptive Cruise. It's far more useful than I thought it would be, but I am about to use Blue Cruise on my cross-Canada trip for the first time. Where I live there are no Blue Cruise-mapped highways so I almost exclusively use Adaptive Cruise and sometimes lane keeping. I'll be able to comment more once I really test and compare the two in more detail. I hope this helps a little. Keep in touch!

Thanks Lewis! So glad you enjoyed it!

It's already been tested. Seems to operate more efficiently than resistive heating to about -10F & then starts to level out to an equal energy draw. Keep in mind that unlike heat pumps in a home, these have a heat variable from the batteries and coolant rather than exclusively beholden to the outside atmosphere. I've now owned both heating methods, so I'll be able to look at my #s once we get down to those cold snaps this winter. Should be interesting! Thanks for the comment!

I will, my friend!

There should be a little thumbs up icon below the video next to the 'share' & 'thanks/donate' button. KZbin has made many changes over the years and now has gone with icons for the most part. I'll ensure that I indicate to "click the thumbs up icon' in the future, as it is more accurate these days. Thanks for pointing this out, and for supporting the channel, Tim!

@@truckedupevs i sent yt a notice about it but have not gotten a reply

It's from RAM's official KZbin channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3mydHxmnbtmaLM

Thank you, Bennie, especially for sticking with me from the start! As I kick off my Canada-wide Trucked Up Tour, I hope to showcase some really novel ways these trucks are used. I think Ford's execs should let me interview them for all the sales they make 😂

Glad you enjoyed it, Kurt! So grateful for your support! Yeah, so many unique applications with these trucks, which I hope to showcase a lot more .

That's awesome. Thanks Lori for the support!

That's what I'm talking about! I mean, I don't think people have yet grasped the insane versatility of these trucks. Thanks for showing yet another brilliant storage and energy use case. Always appreciate your input.

Really? You didn't actually make that comment while somehow overlooking the amount of blood money, mining, effluent output, contamination globally, and child exploitation that has gone into the movement of vehicles via fossil fuels? And did you type that from your 'blood mineral' cell phone or laptop, which account for 30% of all global cobalt use, the mineral you're referring to, or overlook the fact that more ev manufacturers such as Ford are restricting where their battery minerals come from and are only sourcing from ethical production, or the fact that almost 30% of all ev batteries produced today use NONE of the minerals you refer to, instead using LFP chemistry? No, I guess you didn't think about any of that because you just grabbed some recycled, old FUD you read online somewhere and posted it without checking if it was factual first. Wilful ignorance. It's a powerful tool for the gullible.

That's a pretty broad, rather meaningless statement. It's like saying motorcycles are pointless because they have only two wheels. Almost 90% of all truck owners in North America have no use for a diesel, or anything beyond 40 miles a day, which makes an EV truck a perfect use case, never using fast chargers because everyone is waking up to a full truck every morning. Over 85% of owners of pickups never tow or haul, and the average American drives more than 200 miles less than four times a year. So yeah, no. Diesels are absolutely pointless beyond work applications, which most diesel pickups are never used for.

@@truckedupevs I've owned a Tesla Model 3 for 6 years and waited 4 years to get a Cybertruck but due to its limited range decided to buy a Cummins diesel for half the price of a Cybertruck. You do realize that at least with Teslas you're not supposed to go below 20% battery on a regular basis and also you're not supposed to charge past 80% either, right? So your effective range is only 60% of it's "EPA estimated" range. I definitely drive more than 40 miles a day on most weekends and having to spend time at a charging station is not my idea of a fun weekend. I guess if I never left my urban area an electric truck would work just fine. Oh well, to each his own.

@@user-qp4ox8le5o Sounds like a diesel makes a lot of sense for your application. As far as your EPA assessment, not exactly. The battery chemistry determines the charging cycle. LFPs can e charged to 100% consistently. NMCs should not be charged CONSISTENTLY to 100% or drained below 10~20%, but there is no problem in doing so when required, which is how they're designed, and fits with most driving habits. I ran a diesel with the company I worked for. We averaged $160 Cdn per 500 km (300miles). I then ran a Ranger with my own company for six years, averaging $120 for the same mileage. When I switched to the Lightning XLT, that dropped to $12. Pure economics for me. Maintenance on those ICE trucks was costly. I have yet to pay a dime for my EV trucks other than tire rotations. Like you said, to each his own.

99.9% of my driving is less than 50 miles a day. EV makes more sense than diesel for me

Hahahahaha I should of waited a few seconds to post this!

@@TNRVG Hi Billy. Thanks for the comments. Great fishing channel! Just subscribed. So what happened in a few seconds? You've got me curious. Also, Whistlin' Diesel beat the living crap out of the Cybertruck and in many tests it did better than the Ford. But on a follow-up video, he exposed Ford's hitch to 10x the abuse - and it held. I'm of the mind that I'll look again at the CT in a year or two, once things get sorted out, but there's too many unknowns. Ford's been at this for a while. 🙂

Thanks for the comment Stan. Yes you're missing what you've already noted: 150km of range in addition to all the bells and whistles, better interior, full pro power onboard, and piles of others. The Flash is right below the Lariat ER for a lot less. The Pro does not give you the option of the extended range in Canada. If it did, it would exceed the qualifying cap for the incentive. Right now, only the SR Pro & XLT qualify both provincially and federally. Also, if Ford's employee pricing is still in effect, I don't think the spread is $21k, but I could be wrong. As you likely know from my video on the Pro, it was my 1st choice originally. Dollar for dollar, nothing even comes close, but it has its limitations. If those aren't an issue for you, and if you can get it that low on the $ side, I'd jump all over it myself if I didn't need the range for the channel antics.

@@truckedupevs Thanks! The $21,000 comes directly from Ford’s build pricing. This is after tax and rebates. Essentially $9,000 in rebates plus $12,000 difference in truck price. Wish we could get the Pro with ER battery in Canada like in other markets.

@@stanchorney9698 Me too.

Sorry to hear it happened to you to. It is strange that you got and orange light. The Ford portable charger, however, is junk. I'm on my 3rd under warranty since November of '23. I will likely replace it with a more robust third party type when this one goes, but they are very temperamental and orange lights are a common thing with them, I find.

I didn't find my XLT SR a problem for the most part, as you've probably seen in my other videos, but I have plans for the channel that will push the truck to the limit, and the extra battery capacity became more necessary. I 100% agree with all of your assessments. Thanks for the comments and support, Amanda!

Way to go, Perry! We might pass each other on the highway! Look for the 'Trucked Up EVs' decals on the doors & give a We'll have to organize a Lightning Trucked Up Stop locally when your truck arrives to celebrate the new wheels!

Great point. Thanks for the comment.

I was planning to be there on the Sunday, but as you can hear from my voice in this Short, I got walloped with Covid (at first it looked like viral meningitis when at the hospital - so actually relieved it's Covid instead). I am postponing my trip start date until next week, so unfortunately, I'll be missing the Everything Electric show. Hoped to meet a lot of you Trucked Up folk there. Really upset I can't be there.

Damn hey… sorry to hear! Hope you’re able to shake the Covid off quickly

@@Greenspaceservices Thanks for the well wishes, Ron! You've commented several times on my channel and I'm always so appreciative of all the support. Take that R1T and CT out for spin for me, okay?

@@truckedupevs You do a great job myth busting and your humour and enthusiasm combined with facts is entertaining 😂. Planning on the R1T and I didn’t know the cyber truck was going to be there 😍👀👍

@@Greenspaceservices Thanks Ron! Yep, but I don't know if they'll let anyone drive it, but you should be able to get up close and personal. Watch out for finger cuts though! 🙂

AM Ford in Trail.

Hey Perry, that sure looks like Slocan Lake in your profile! Are we neighbours?

Excellent points! Thanks for adding to the conversation, Nick. The Lightning can't do that unless you install the Ford Charge Station Pro, which used to come free with the extended range but they dumped it for 2024, now costing $1,800 for the unit, a few more thousand to the electrician since it then needs the house upgraded to allow for the Intelligent Back-up Power feed to the home in power outages. So yeah, let's get our laggard North American butts in gear, and catch up to the Europeans!

@@truckedupevs Good point. I had to spend a couple grand total on the purchase and install of my 48A Tesla Universal Wall Connector. Most folks aren’t willing to do that.

Pet issue of mine. I have the Lightning Lariat which came with the Ford Pro charger, @ 80 amps or 19.2KW. The truck phone app has never indicated more 17.1KW being added to the truck. I have an additional Grizzl-E 80 amp charger at another location, same results. Also, in order to get the max charge of 80 amps, it requires a 100 amp dedicated breaker in the panel. Most homes have a maximum of 200 amps service for the entire house, plus no device on a home can use more than 80 amps by code. In short, very small slice of users can actually get the 80 amps to charge. The US standard will not allow 3 phase in residential use, only commercial. Also, any device that has a plug to provide power is limited to 40 amps max, which is 80% of the 50amp plug. We have a Tesla too, with a 48 amp wall connector. Installing these are in sand box.

@@garryrooks3413 that’s good feedback about your Lightening not getting the advertised 19kW charge rate. What does Ford say about it?? Side note, 19.2kW is peak 240V X 80A. 240V US is really 235V +-5V. So, real world charging is more like 234V X 79.99A = 18.7kW-ish. Not that it’s much consolation.

@@garryrooks3413 Yes, it's a valid point, Garry. It seems it's more of a marketing ploy in the inflating of the numbers. We have different standards in Canada, and 3-phase is an option, but I don't know of anyone getting the max #s. Still, I'm jealous because Ford dumped all of what was included before with an extended range, and now we have to pay a massive extra amount as a option. Goodbye to the 'free' Pro charger.

Hey, thanks for the comment and feedback. Yes, he has a habit to destroy vehicles on his channel deliberately, and that's why he gets so many views. Still, I think it should be be pointed out that Whistlin' Diesel did do these things to BOTH vehicles. In fact, with this very argument that you and thousands of others have made, he did a follow-up video and exposed the ford F150 to the exact same conditions times a factor of ten to the bumper hitch, and it easily help up. The CT has had four cited cases with towing where not only the hitch broke off, but the frame itself, which is irreparable. I am of the mind that this is a design flaw, and a recall will eventually occur. How to fix it? Who knows. Because I plan to do a lot more towing with the channel in the future, I can't risk my $ on the CT yet. Tesla had over four years to make this work and CT is still looking like it is pre-production. The Lightning has had very few problems since its roll-out - but nothing to the degree the CT has experienced. I'm like you. I weighed it all in and ended up with a Flash in my driveway. Two years from now? Might be a Cybertruck 🙂

Haha! That would definitely be satisfying. The system was designed to be as versatile as possible, and I keep surprising myself with what I can do with this truck.

Thanks, Kathy! Yeah, being Canadian I use a mix of metric and imperial and then wonder why everyone is confused 🙂

Mine is a '24 and has the spare tire. The NACS is no fault of Ford's, other than trusting Elon Musk to hold up his end of the bargain. Right after getting all the autos to commit to NACS, he fired the entire NACS adapter team, along with the entire supercharger team, pushing back the delivery - which Musk had insisted Tesla would produce in-house - back by months, if not years. Why anyone likes him is beyond me.

Yes, it's out of the range (hehe) of many truck folk, but still, with the mid-ate & the massive battery I can see GM justifying some of that price, but not all of it. The fit and finish for a $100k+ truck isn't there. I was close, but I'll wait to see how things develop over the course of the next year or two. Thanks for the comment!

@@armedprophet3321 And you continue paying the $75+ per week for fuel so that you can haul more than mulch every once in a while.

@@Bryan-jz4fn Hmmmm that’s funny because actually it’s only about 35 dollars every two weeks. I fill up when I am 1/4 tank low when I am just putzing around but wait until 3/4 tank low when I actually go on long drives. But my time is worth way more than just wasting it at a charging station for hours. You EV people absolutely kill me 😂😂😂

Thanks for the feedback. No, you don't. If that were the case, I couldn't have purchased it for the price that I did (and would likely have made more of an effort to see if I could have bought the Silverado EV RST). Every now and then Ford does an 'Employee Pricing Event' and they offer customers the same prices that Ford employees get. It's never shown up on EVs before, so I was blown away when I found out the Lightning qualified. I have no affiliation with Ford, nor do I receive any kind of financial benefit, incentive, or sponsorship. KZbin requires that anything like that has to be disclosed. The advertisements are still running on KZbin (that's how I found out), but I have no idea how long Ford does the promo. Lastly, I'm in Canada so not sure if the same is offered in other countries. I hope this helps.

Glad you liked it, Don! Still rocking that lap steel?

Thank you, Bro! I'm coming to the Island week of Sept 9th. Hope to see you.

Thanks Paul! Yeah, I just my own unscientific test at a 200kw Chevron station, and it hit 173 but stayed there for about 8 minutes. The nice thing was how gradually it slowed the rate to 80%, where it continued at 60kw.