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I'll try to remember to take some pics the next time I have everything hooked up on the new truck. The old was a VW Passat TDI, and the bike rack was on the back of the TD with that vehicle, and a dual extension hitch would not have worked on that TV due to the TV tongue weight limit.

That's what I have gone to with the new truck. I wanted to get the bikes off the back of the TD so we could more easily get into the galley on the road, so I got the dual hitch extension so I could put them between the truck and camper. The rack we have has the oval loops that the bike tires...

.....that's the point! ;)

Yeah, I was thinking of you this morning when they were showing all the flooding in Indiana....called it a 1000 yr flood. Yikes! Our caretaker sent me a picture two days ago after they had some strong wind storms in AZ on Sunday night. We've had a couple power outages here this summer, and I...

Yes, even though I tried to explain the enormity of it all to you when you were first inquiring about making the trip there earlier this summer, it's really difficult to do justice to it without actually taking it all in personally. Your departure and my arrival pretty much coincided, so I'm...

Makes me wonder.....has there ever been a TD ordered with every option available added (of course except the ones that would preclude a different one from being added). Cary?

My first service went great! However when I tried to get service at my local Chevy dealer, they said they didn't have a strong enough lift when I told them it was a Silverado EV, so I had to go 25miles south to the next closest dealer. They couldn't have been nicer. First service was free on...

It looks pretty cool, and if it were built by someone with Craig & Cary's work ethic, and engineering prowess, and would work as nicely as depicted in the videos on a long term basis without the problems that Sweeney described, it would be a nice replacement for a second home to follow the...

My research found that tire wear on the EV's is about 20-40% higher than on conventional vehicles, and no surprise, a lot that depends on driving habits, but a lot also depends on the weight. So being pretty much the heaviest EV out there other than the Hummer, I expect tire replacement costs...

No, I didn't get it until the end of April, so not too much cold exposure at this point, but I'm sure like most vehicles exposed to that kind of cold, it won't offer anything close to it's best range. If you pre-warm the vehicle before you take off, while it's still plugged in, both the battery...

There has been a lot of progress in battery technology, and in bringing their costs down, as we have seen with the sogens, and stand alone LiFePo batteries in the last few years. The Chinese seem to have found the recipe for bringing these savings into their automotive offerings as well, but...

Cameron is on Hwy 8 just a few miles east of Hwy 53, and Barron is just a few miles west of that same Hwy 8/53 intersection. I was not familiar with that website. I've watched tons of videos both before and since buying ours, but tried concentrating on the newer model years, and since his was...

Forecast today is for 91 with a dew point of 75. So we will graduate from tropical to swampy.....a good day for inside projects.

So, we have had the Silverado EV about 3 months now, and have taken two road trips. The first was to Rainy Lake where we rented a houseboat with our daughters family for a 4 day 3 night outing. I charged the truck to 100% state of charge (SOC) the night before we left using our off peak charger...

Yeah, it may not be worth spending much time or money on. I was getting ready for a quick run over to Oshkosh, so didn't have time to either repair or replace it before leaving. Since it did run continuously and freeze whatever was in it, I decided to use water bottle ice blocks, and had three...