For $100 it is worth the wait. So far GM has the only EV options able to carry full size sheet lumber home under cover and with the tailgate closed.
Does it being an EV have anything to do with waiting or is it just the mid-gate and inexpensive reservation? By waiting you mean are making do with what you have? Or is there an interim plan?For $100 it is worth the wait. So far GM has the only EV options able to carry full size sheet lumber home under cover and with the tailgate closed.
I agree. So why wait and not get an ICE now?I might add, the wait for a lightning, hummer or R1T may end up rivaling the wait for a GMC/Chevy at this point. None of the manufacturers are cranking these things out in what would be considered "volume" yet.
I am retired but in the past I went the truck rental route for a while. Always came back to owning one, even if I only used it occasionally as a truck.If I HAD to have a truck today, I would. For now I can rent one when I need it.
We are in many ways in the same camp of thought as you. Going EV will not save the environment or the human race but does seem to be a step or two in the right direction. The bolted door to EV and solar has finally been kicked open despite big oil, coal, the car industry and Government.For our houeshold, a BEV truck is something we're looking forward to... and is worth the wait. I don't have the gumption to try and be a first-first adopter (Rivian or Hummer EV), but I think the Silverado or Sierra EV will worth the wait as the bugs get worked out. I'm also in the Cybertruck queue, but I doubt I'll get the CT if my turn ever comes up to take delivery (GM will really need to drop the ball for me to get the CT now).
The motivator for me is not really some thing to come out ahead with savings. We want to make a small impact to how our energy consumption affects our environment for our kids. We don't want to sit on the sidelines and just complain about what others are doing (or not doing). Rather, we want to make some difference wherever we can. I was a stupid Tesla Stan. My garage wall is covered in Tesla Powerwall 2s, I had a stupid Tesla logo on my gutter box connecting everything, and I have two Tesla Wall Connectors on a master/slave configuration. But I'm going with another brand for my next vehicle.
We also have as big of a solar array as we can fit on the roof. This enables us to be ~85% "off-grid" of sorts, where 85% of the annual home energy needs are self-powered (sun charges the on-premises batteries, and the batteries sustain the daily energy cycle). Unfortunately, the winter months just don't see enough sun, so we rely on excess NEM exports in the Summer to provide credit to power the home in the Winter during cloudy days.
Getting BEV vehicles is yet another attempt to actually make a difference to our carbon footprint. You don't have to go far to find EV Naysayers who post on every GM Authority article about EVs. Or the trolls in the comment sections of FLT videos on Youtube. These anti-EV-ers always spout the sophomoric lines from FoxNews that the grid is dirty so charging an EV with the grid is bad. The simple solution to this lazy thinking is to charge the EV with solar.
I'm glad you all are actually trying to make a difference by going EV; instead of listening to the naysayers that it's not worth the effort to get BEVs or PHEVs. There are too many people who find reasons not to do something. And the anti-EV crowd loves doing nothing while complaining about rising gas prices. So to me, these BEV trucks are well worth the wait; and an ICE will simply not be a reasonable replacement. I'm going to be one of the lame-azz losers who gets the truck to basically move some kiddos around and pick up crap from the furniture store or hardware store. I'm so annoyed when crap doesn't fit in this CUV Volvo lol.
Anyway, my wife's Model 3 is ~85% daytime charged with solar from the home (or daytime solar provided by CAISO). My PHEV Volvo is only about 40% electric charged, but getting rid of this, and switching to a Sierra EV means being able to charge with daytime solar (from my home or the grid) and getting around ~85%. We don't know how much of a difference such efforts will make to our environmental future, but we gotta try! Also, California's utilities keep complaining that there is too much solar production (residential + large-scale-commercial), so let's use that excess to charge some EV batteries!
Agreed except that the mid-gate is a none issue for me.I want the midgate and I want to run off my solar. I’m at a point in my life where I can afford a nice new truck, but I’m not going to pay double GMs advertised starting price.
Given the ridiculous time on new ev orders, and high demand vehicles, I just added a f9rd extended warranty add to my 2021 Mach-E for 6 years 100k miles. Car rates are high and dealerships are still not really motivated to sell.