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Originally Posted by Hehe
It's more about doing day to day chores+outdoor stuff that pushed me into getting a truck.
Regardless what SUV you have, it's hard to fit snowboards or bikes without resorting to a rack system of some kind. Bikes are ok as we do that in the summer and there isn't much dirt to worry about. Snowboard/ski OTOH is a PITA whether you use a rooftop rack or trailer hatch rack. They always get dirt/snow/rain or whatever and it's not a very pleasant experience to arrive at the ski resort only to find your board covered in something.
Yes, first world problem perhaps. But it's just so much easier with a truck. And the reason why I ordered CT back when it was announced was that it checked all the boxes.
It's an EV; no need to worry about gas price.
It's got a bed; load whatever junk in it.
It's got a cover; no need to worry about stuff getting wet/dirty.
I don't ever tow anything, so the idea was never about towing. I just needed a truck to load soil, plants and bikes in the summer and snowboards in the winter. All without having to mess around with racks or whatever accessories I might need.
It wasn't too bad. Our first stop was Revelstoke, between home to there, we stopped by Merritt to charge for about 30min, which we spent on having lunch at the Denny's right by the SC and I actually left to move the truck before lunch was done as it said I had enough to continue the trip.
At Revy, the hotel we stayed had a charger, so charged to 100% and made it to Banff with about 30% left. Then in Banff again we left with 100% and made it to Edmonton without stopping. We did arrive with only 5% to the hotel, but no stop was needed. The drive back home from Edmonton had more stops. I think we stopped 3 times in total and spent about an hour and half charging, but we planned all the charging stops as meal breaks and really didn't waste much time as we were never waiting in car but rather with some activities.
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I like giving hehe shit sometimes, but for him he's thought this through and it makes sense.
I'd be a little wary about stretching it down to 5% at arriving to Edmonton though. How many km is 5%? If you run into bad weather that 5% would become zero quite quickly?
We don't use racks for snowboards as it fits inside the car for the most part, but then the problem is after riding, you can never get all the snow off the board and everything is a soggy mess. You either have a dirty soggy mess in the bed, or a dirty soggy mess inside the car. And I agree biking is less of it issue unless you are driving when it's raining. I had to drive home from camping in the rain with our bikes behind on the rack. The bikes were disgusting after.