Recent content by Trace26

Very true!

Weight has a very small effect on range. Now if enough weight is safed it could help with cargo capacity.

If you precondition before unplugging helps a lot. Not much different than letting an ice get to operating temp before driving it. You could also put a diesel heater in the bed and duct it into the car. You'll be real warm then.

That's a beefy setup for only 1000lbs

Probably

Many tests have shown that weight has little effect on efficiency compared to wind resistance.

It's easy to pre-download playlist on wifi and there's a setting in most streaming apps to not use data.

The only time I've used a radio in the last 10 years was when I'm driving the farm truck to get feed and that's because that's all it has. And the reception is terrible from interference.

For all the people saying "but the Maverick is the same price and you get a lot more."

I think this is very good info if you plan on this being your only vehicle. If you have a second car in the household you can use that instead. This does get away from the "everyone has their car and no one drives mine" idea that's prevalent in the US. But that mindset is not very practical or...

What's the swaybar going over to avoid 🤔

Several articles and videos have been posted on here about how extra weight doesn't effect range very much. However, it would definitely hurt 0-60. Of your other power draw comparisons the heater and AC would probably be the only noticable changes in range.

I was thinking you could just cut a hole in the headliner and unbolt the roof panel. Boom removable roof! Lol

If you don't want to buy one why are you on this forum? Not trying to be rude, I'm just confused.