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

[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.

 

[lazjen]

More truck stuff. Bought an electric ride on mower (can't use it yet because of the rain!). It almost fits in the bed without the tailgate down. Bit nervous driving it up the ramps into the bed as the angle was quite steep.

I've got an electric push mower and brush cutter/strimmer on order as well. With that I should be able to completely divest from using fossil fuels directly.

 

[Power P]

My first 'Lightning doing truck stuff' post...Had the pleasure of using the truck's Pro Power Onboard to power some sawing up of old decking boards before hauling them to the local dump...

I just love the convenience of hooking up power tools to the back of the truck and not having to drag out a long extension cord. And the F-150's bed sure beats mauling the back of my SUV, which is what I had to do previously for such a job. Go Lightning!

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