My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

[Gregski]

over at the Bendability Station

[Gregski]

so although all my measurements told me this shoe box design would fit, it didn't

[Gregski]

one of many trial fits after a bunch of nip and tucks

[Gregski]

hard to tell in the pics but the top is slanted down about 2" in the back in the final design

[D.B]

Very nice for you but not for me. The cardboard box is hard enough to wrestle in, a metal one would be impossible. I guess I would have to give up my man card if I had to do one.

[yuccales]

Wiring looks great! As for the glove box..

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by yuccales

Wiring looks great! As for the glove box..

thank you, and METAL !!!

[Gregski]

so I finally got to go to a car show after years and years of always camping or travelling with the family, and I scored a few goodies I want to share, oh and the tacos from the taco trailer being towed by a 67-72 dime were on point

[Gregski]

pretty excited abotu them 1/4 inch spacers as I've been dying to increase the tire to wheel well gapness from almost a pinky to almost a thumb

what's yer take on wheel spacers? run 'em or hate em?

[Gregski]

anobody who's played the upgrade game knows how this goes

[D.B]

Originally Posted by Gregski

anobody who's played the upgrade game knows how this goes

So true, it never fails to get the upgrade bug. I go to a show and see upgrades in person. Then all I want to do is upgrades. Wife hates it - cha-ching $$$$$!!!

[Gregski]

Le's do a little Truck Math:

Swap meet Dorman 1/4" wheel spacers: $5.00 bucks

twelve new 7/16-20 thread 1-3/4" long wheel lugs: $45.00 dollars

[Gregski]

finding that two of my lugs already were replaced and did not match the others made justifying getting all twelve new ones easier

[Gregski]

I must admit, the Impactinator is a game changer fer sure !!!

[Gregski]

well folks we done did it, we figured out how to charge at a public charging station like normal regular plug in hybrids or OEM 100% electric cars

this aint bad at all for a build that cost under $4,000 dollars


a link to a short video of us charging DIY EVSE J1772 Controller Level 2 Charging at a ChargePoint public station


.

[yuccales]

Originally Posted by Gregski

well folks we done did it, we figured out how to charge at a public charging station like normal regular plug in hybrids or OEM 100% electric cars

That's awesome! Love those pics.

[nicklear36]

Originally Posted by Gregski

well folks we done did it, we figured out how to charge at a public charging station like normal regular plug in hybrids or OEM 100% electric cars

this aint bad at all for a build that cost under $4,000 dollars


a link to a short video of us charging DIY EVSE J1772 Controller Level 2 Charging at a ChargePoint public station


.

I'm just picturing the blank stares from Tesla owners parking next to you

This is awesome, innovative work.

[biketopia]

Thats awesome!! Congrats on your set up!!

[D.B]

Cool deal Gregsk, I like it!!! I have a few questions and I am hoping I am asking them right.

If you were to break it down. How would your e-truck charge mileage be compared to an ICE-truck. Cost per mile.

How much does it cost to fully charge your e-truck.

How many miles do you get from a full charge, City / Highway.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by D.B

Cool deal Gregsk, I like it!!! I have a few questions and I am hoping I am asking them right.

If you were to break it down. How would your e-truck charge mileage be compared to an ICE-truck. Cost per mile.

How much does it cost to fully charge your e-truck.

How many miles do you get from a full charge, City / Highway.

excellent questions, so let me start with the easiest ones first

there is a magic number of 3.5 miles per something called a kWh (kilowatt hour) not to be mistaken for a kW aka just a kilowatt, this 3.5 assumes combined some streets some highway miles

dont mean to insult nobody but don't want to assume anyone knows less than others, so let me break it down

kW measures power

kWh measured energy

batteries in electric cars store energy so they are measured using kWh so mine is out of a hybrid BMW so they are usually pretty small so it is only 9.1 kWh, pretty small as compared to say full 100% electric cars which have 36 kWh battery packs if not bigger like 56 kWh, you get the idea

so if we multiply 9.1 times 3.5 we get just about 32 miles, so that is my current range

well that sucks one might say, but, nothing stops me from adding a second one (which I already own and when I built the truck I made provisions aka a bracket to simply mount it right under my current one, all I have to do is install it) and that will double my range to over 60 miles

well why haven't I done so, well cause I am a real numbers guy and not an academic, so I wanted to, I needed to drive the truck with just one battery pack and see how far it actually goes, and I did just that and I think I babied it to about 39 miles but I am just calling it a 30 mile battery pack

a few year ago we leased a 100% electric Nissan Leaf for $211 dollars a month (that was less than the cost of gasoline for our '97 Chevy Tahoe at the time) this car had a range of 84 miles, but it taught us a valuable lesson, that being just becaue your range is 84 miles or only 30 miles that doesn't mean that's all you have to drive in that day

I can get up in the morning and drive to Target, literally charge in that parking lot while I shop, then come home charge some more while I eat lunch, then go out again and go to the gym, again while I charge, etc...

actually one of the things I plan on doing is driving 100 miles on this 30 mile battery pack later this month to prove to you all how it works, stay tuned

FYI: my first battery pack cost me $900 dollars and my second one cost me $1,100 so on average I have $1,000 dollar packs (those were incredibly good deals, but they are out there)

below are 6 modules that make up one battery pack, I purposely laid it out on a 2' x 4' foot board as a reference, look at how small it is and that small thing takes you over 30 miles, and this is 2017 technology, it's already outdated the new generation of the same pack exactly the same physical size can take you over 40 miles

[pjmoreland]

Originally Posted by Gregski

excellent questions, so let me start with the easiest ones first

there is a magic number of 3.5 miles per something called a kWh (kilowatt hour) not to be mistaken for a kW aka just a kilowatt

dont mean to insult nobody but don't want to assume anyone knows less than others, so let me break it down

kW measures power

kWh measured energy

batteries in electric cars store energy so they are measured using kWh so mine is out of a hybrid BMW so they are usually pretty small so it is only 9.1 kWh, pretty small as compared to say full 100% electric cars which have 36 kWh battery packs if not bigger like 56 kWh, you get the idea

so if we multiply 9.1 times 3.5 we get just about 32 miles, so that is my current range

well that sucks one might say, but, nothing stops me from adding a second one (which I already own and when I built the truck I made provisions aka a bracket to simply mount it right under my current one, all I have to do is install it) and that will double my range to over 60 miles

well why haven't I done so, well cause I am a real numbers guy and not an academic, so I wanted to, I needed to drive the truck with just one battery pack and see how far it actually goes, and I did just that and I think I babied it to about 39 miles but I am just calling it a 30 mile battery pack

a few year ago we leased a 100% electric Nissan Leaf for $211 dollars a month (that was less than the cost of gasoline for our '97 Chevy Tahoe at the time) this car had a range of 84 miles, but it taught us a valuable lesson, that being just becaue your range is 84 miles or only 30 miles that doesn't mean that's all you have to drive in that day

I can get up in the morning and drive to Target, literally charge in that parking lot while I shop, then come home charge some more while I eat lunch, then go out again and go to the gym, again while I charge, etc...

actually one of the things I plan on doing is driving 100 miles on this 30 mile battery pack later this month to prove to you all how it works, stay tuned

How much did it cost you to charge at that charging station, and how many kWh did you get for that amount?

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by pjmoreland

How much did it cost you to charge at that charging station, and how many kWh did you get for that amount?

Hi Patrick, I was not ignoring your question, I went to my online bank account to cut and paste the actual fees and they disappeared, on the day I charged it said there was some sort of $1.00 hold and I thought ok I will give it a few days than go check again and there should be some sort of ChargePoint line item, but there isn't they deleted the transaction

and here's what my online ChargePoint account Charging Activity looks like for this entire month, this is so Men In Black !

[pjmoreland]

This website says $0.30/kWh for level 2 public charging and $0.18/kWh at home (without solar panels). Based on your 3.5 mi/kWh figure, here's the cost to drive your truck:
https://driveclean.ca.gov/electric-car-charging

Public: $0.30/kWh / 3.5mi/kWh = $0.086/mi
Home: $0.18/kWh / 3.5mi/kWh = $0.051/mi

We can come up with an approximate gas mileage equivalent for comparison to the original 350 V8 that probably got around 12 MPG along with the average cost of gas in California which is currently $5.52/gal. In that case, the cost per mile is $5.52/gal / 12mi/gal = $0.46/mi.

Public: 12MPG * 0.46 / 0.086 = 64MPG
Home: 12MPG * 0.46 / 0.051 = 108MPG

Another way to look at this is to convert it into an equivalent price per gallon of gas or the cost to drive 12 miles:

Public: $0.086/mi * 12mi/gal = $1.03/gal
Home: $0.051/mi * 12mi/gal = $0.61/gal

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by pjmoreland

This website says $0.30/kWh for level 2 public charging and $0.18/kWh at home (without solar panels). Based on your 3.5 mi/kWh figure, here's the cost to drive your truck:
https://driveclean.ca.gov/electric-car-charging

Public: $0.30/kWh / 3.5mi/kWh = $0.086/mi
Home: $0.18/kWh / 3.5mi/kWh = $0.051/mi

We can come up with an approximate gas mileage equivalent for comparison to the original 350 V8 that probably got around 12 MPG along with the average cost of gas in California which is currently $5.52/gal. In that case, the cost per mile is $5.52/gal / 12mi/gal = $0.46/mi.

Public: 12MPG * 0.46 / 0.086 = 64MPG
Home: 12MPG * 0.46 / 0.051 = 108MPG

Another way to look at this is to convert it into an equivalent price per gallon of gas or the cost to drive 12 miles:

Public: $0.086/mi * 12mi/gal = $1.03/gal
Home: $0.051/mi * 12mi/gal = $0.61/gal

thank you, luv it, feels that much more better when I drive past the gas stations and just look up at the sun

[Gregski]

so we started this month with the goal of reinstalling our windows, when we came across a tiny snag, out of four of our windows, one did not match, the driver vent window had that green tint, all the other three did not