jakef801
Well-Known Member
Well, maybe I jinxed myself by posting the above message. The drain has increased under similar conditions over the last week or so as I've been monitoring. Perhaps the speculation about the most recent update adding to the drain is true. I'm now spending a lot of my time working on a vacation house and I don't have an L2 charger or access to 240V. I hesitate to even use the 120V charger, in below freezing temps, from what I've read on this forum. Luckily, there are two 50kwh ChargePoint stations about a mile away from me at the local grocery and hardware stores. I'm on Bear Lake in NE Utah and I have yet to see another vehicle use these chargers. It's all Ford, Chevy, and Rams up here. I do get a lot of questions, though. I always say that, "Hey, I haven't sold my Tundra or Jeep just yet". Ha ha. Everyone has been cool and genuinely interested. When I tell them about the HP & Torque, it's like their heads almost explode.FWIW, as a test, I let mine sit unplugged, outside for almost 10 days while I was out of town. Temps were in single digits Fahrenheit much of the time. It went from 85% to 82% during that time frame.
Anyway, about to head to my buddy's private 40,000 acre ranch (Shout-out to Backcountrysnow.com), towing two 800cc snowmobiles, on the north slope of the Uinta Mountains for the weekend. It will be single digits for sure. We'll see how the R1T holds up as well as how the 21" AS tires perform. I've been testing it out on the snowy and icy roads around town, trying to get it to to slip and slide....they seem to be doing just fine. Side note: I had a '92 Subaru Legacy AWD sedan in college and that SOB would not ever get stuck in snow with AS tires. Tried as I may, it wouldn't. One day it dumped almost 40 inches and I took it through a church parking lot and it went subterranean in the snow, full submarine style...never got stuck. Let's hope the R1T will do the same. TMI, I know...I get rambling.
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