F150 Lightning
04-23-2021, 12:35 PM
#71
Senior Member
According to these maps, people in the southwest, where you find a lot of these successful off-grid solar only installations hail from, get just under 2.5x more solar energy than I get in northern Kentucky. If you add in population density, you find the southwest gets 2x more solar energy than something like 70% of the total US population.
I can add in to this some personal experience from using quality solar panels for wilderness packing and camping. The southwest is great for solar, but most of the rest of the country isn't. After running several different solar panels on my pack from 2013-2018 (7+ day long trips), I moved back to just carrying a Li-Ion pack as the solar panels offered no benefit over battery packs and weighed more.
The payoff for my home would take almost the life of the system, about 17 years, and adds only 70% of the cost of the system to the home's value. The only advantage to go solar on a permanent structure is to have power when the utility goes out, but I'm still left without a/c or heat unless I triple the cost of the system. I'd also need to buy a house twice as large to have room for the panels I'd need. Another reality of going off-grid is most of the population does not have the space to do so.
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I can add in to this some personal experience from using quality solar panels for wilderness packing and camping. The southwest is great for solar, but most of the rest of the country isn't. After running several different solar panels on my pack from 2013-2018 (7+ day long trips), I moved back to just carrying a Li-Ion pack as the solar panels offered no benefit over battery packs and weighed more.
The payoff for my home would take almost the life of the system, about 17 years, and adds only 70% of the cost of the system to the home's value. The only advantage to go solar on a permanent structure is to have power when the utility goes out, but I'm still left without a/c or heat unless I triple the cost of the system. I'd also need to buy a house twice as large to have room for the panels I'd need. Another reality of going off-grid is most of the population does not have the space to do so.
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04-23-2021, 01:22 PM
#72
Senior Member
My current F150 can go 600 miles with a 10 min fill-up. So, no nothing about electric trucks appeals to me in any way. Also, with twin turbskies, it's plenty quick enough with decent payload and don't even get started about electric towing range degradation. Cold weather battery performance, longevity, serviceability etc.in other words Ford and the EPA should not be pissing down our back and telling us it's raining.
Last edited by Aok2016; 04-23-2021 at 01:29 PM.
04-23-2021, 01:26 PM
#73
Senior Member
more like 5 mins
04-23-2021, 01:41 PM
#74
Senior Member
You were offered a Porsche Taycan Turbo S as a loaner??? a $175000 car that'll get you from 0-60 in about 2.8 seconds...and you said no...
Where is this amazingly irresponsible dealer giving these cars out as loaners?
Find it hard to believe...kind of like a lot of other posts on here!
Every EV thread on here turns into the Twilight Zone!
Where is this amazingly irresponsible dealer giving these cars out as loaners?
Find it hard to believe...kind of like a lot of other posts on here!
Every EV thread on here turns into the Twilight Zone!
04-23-2021, 01:45 PM
#75
04-23-2021, 02:03 PM
#76
Senior Member
Stu has told me for years i'm poor because i can't afford a Lariat because i bought an XL .. it would be harder for him to comprehend that i might be able to afford a Porsche
04-23-2021, 02:09 PM
#78
Senior Member
04-23-2021, 03:57 PM
#79
Well...no...thats incorrect.
If you're going to publicly trash me at least get your facts straight.
I was to say... critical of you in a post some years ago... clearly you have issues letting go.
You were in a thread acting like an expert in all things and options involved with regard to the higher trim trucks.
As usual...you didn't have much good so say about the upper trims...or their options.
And so I asked you what it is that makes you an expert given as you own an XL.
Anyway...I see nothing has changed.
Keep writing your sob stories...looks like you have company in that area...lol...
04-23-2021, 03:59 PM
#80
You've made at least a dozen posts about your hurt feelings...
