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A GMC Hummer EV Driver Paid $85.20 at One Charging Stop on His Las Vegas Trip, Bringing the Battery From 23% to 99%
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1072+ words) Steven Smith’s first long family road trip in his GMC Hummer EV came with a comfortable ride, a successful Las Vegas vacation, and an $85.20 charging stop in Barstow. That bill bought a substantial recharge: the session began at 23% and ended…...
A Cybertruck Driver Says His Two-Hour Dump Run Takes One Charge With About 10,000 Pounds in Tow, So His Crew Got the Diesel
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (727+ words) The diesel was supposed to stay for the dump trailer. Jerry Hiebert had bought a Tesla Cybertruck, nicknamed it Jack, and put it to work collecting construction materials and making monthly dump runs. He still intended to keep his Denali…...
Tesla Quietly Downgraded the Cybertruck’s Underbody Shield, and Some Owners Are Losing It
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (525+ words) This discovery about Tesla downgrading Cybertruck's underbody shield lit up the forums. The discovery came from a thread where owners started noticing that the underside of their trucks looked suspiciously different. After a few rounds of speculation, Tesla engineering lead…...
EV Sales Fell 27% in Q1 2026, but UC Davis Says Automakers Pulling Back Caused More of the $53 Billion Retreat Than Buyers Did
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (257+ words) America's EV strategy is lurching. Policy reversals, people's hesitations, and automakers scrambling to protect their balance sheets have turned what was supposed to be a clean, steady sprint toward electrification into a messy, uneven stumble. The Numbers Look Bad, but…...
Google Adds 25 Class 8 Electric Trucks to a 63-Truck Texas Fleet, Never Mentions Tesla Semi, And Expects to Cut 92,000 Tons of CO2e
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (448+ words) Here's a fun little puzzle for you. Google just announced a major electric trucking deal in Texas. The blog post announcing it has a picture of a semi truck at the top. That truck sure looks like a Tesla Semi....
Ford F-150 Lightning Driver Says Pro Power Shut Off Every 30 Minutes at 76% Charge, Even With “Keep On” Selected
6+ day, 20+ min ago (852+ words) A Ford driver, Jonathan Hailey, tried the fan. Then the chargers. Then different combinations of both. According to his account, his 2025 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum kept giving him the same result: Pro Power Onboard shut off after 30 minutes. The truck had…...
Tesla Tires Can Wear Out in 15,000 Miles, but Three Habits Can Make Any EV's Tires Last Twice as Long
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (796+ words) If your Tesla is eating through tires every 10,000 or 15,000 miles, you're not imagining it, and you're not necessarily driving it wrong either. You're just running into physics. None of that means something is broken on these trucks. It usually means…...
Ford Mustang Mach-E and Hyundai Ioniq 5 Owners Told Us Elon Musk Pushed Them Away From Tesla, but Cox Data Shows Tesla Just Climbed to 55% of the U.S. EV Market
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (968+ words) We ran two polls in two places where we expected the answers to line up. One went into a Hyundai Ioniq 5 owners group. The other went into a Ford Mustang Mach-E owners group. In both, we asked people who had…...
Cybertruck Owner Thinks The Tire Damage on His 171-Mile Truck Is Frustrating, But Others Say He May Have Hit Something
1+ week, 3+ hour ago (566+ words) You've got 171 miles on a brand new truck. You haven't hit a curb, you haven't rolled over anything you remember, and you sure haven't been off-roading. Then you walk out one morning and there it is: a mark on your…...
Tesla Cybertruck Driver Says an 8,000-Pound Tow Used 80% Battery in 100 Miles, With a âWay Betterâ Ride Than His Duramax
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (1431+ words) A Tesla Cybertruck driver says towing an 8,000-pound trailer for 100 miles used 80% of the truck’s battery at 60 mph, yet the experience left him praising the ride and hookup process over his Duramax. Posting in the Facebook group Cybertruck Owners Only,…...