It's Melting! Dashing for the Arctic in a Pair of 2022 Toyota Tundras + Tundra Style at Night - Day4

Hi folks, welcome to the Truck King YouTube channel and day four of our Tacoma to Tundra road trip. Now this one is starting in the truck because we have a lot of kilometers to do. Today we're going from Quesnel to Smithers BC which is only I think 600 kilometers ish. Not a crazy day and I got the GoPro running out the windshield. You can see the conditions have been really nice. It actually has just barely rained on us today. The roads here are fairly flat and straight so we're doing 100 to 110 kilometers an hour. Today's been easy. It's been a pretty consistent easy day which has given Matthew and I lots of time to worry about what is coming because first of all tomorrow is going to be a 1300 kilometer day. At least we are hopeful that it will be a 1300 kilometer day. We'll see how it all shakes out in the end and the reason why we're pushing so hard is because once we found out about those two ice crossings on the Dempster I mean we wanted to make sure we get up there and get over because we want that shot at the arctic ocean because it's a real fear. We've been hearing reports and Steve will read a couple in a second that these roads are starting to close. Yeah we should also say right now right here 13 degrees celsius so it's getting quite warm. In Inuvik where we're going the days right now are above freezing two degrees three degrees and so yeah right here the Northwest Territories has a great twitter feed where they share what's going on with the ice roads. I'll actually give you a look at it right here and you can see the Lierd, I'm sure I'm butchering the names I apologize, the Lierd ice crossing and the New Delhi ice crossing 72 hour notice of closure but be aware that the deteriorating conditions may warrant a sudden closure so guys you know the weather waits for no man and that's why we are doing our best just to get up there because we've got boots on the ground in Dawson City. We've got a fan in Dawson City who's involved with transport and logistics and he's been updating us and he's telling us reports from the Dempster are mud mud and mud so stuff's melting it's practically spring it is spring yeah it's uh it's setting in quick and uh I know we're starting to worry about it a little bit. Yeah yeah I mean needless to say we want to make it worst case scenario we're gonna have that ice crossing in the background and that's going to be as far as we go but that's not why we came here which is why we are trying to push so hard and just make up so many kilometers these next couple of days so we can get up to those ice crossings um but in terms of what's going on for the rest of today let's come back to it we are going to Smithers we have our last dealer meeting today at Glacier Toyota we've been having fun showing off this hybrid to people people have been pretty excited to see it and in that vein Matt again I know it hasn't been the toughest conditions today but you've been doing all the driving here in the TRD Pro so why don't you give the folks some of your impressions on what you've been feeling yeah these uh these roads have certainly not been tough by any stretch um we've been averaging well over 100 kilometers from the majority of the time the the biggest on-road impression I've been taking from this thing is I've had to pass a couple we've been in a very logging heavy area today I've had to pass a few trucks a couple of and when you really get into the throttle on this thing the back end has got a real squash to it you can really feel it when that torque comes on and you get that drop and it's an on-road thing certainly off-road that squash is what's going to give you such good handling over the bumps but out here you get that squash plus the little bit of g-force for the lane change the back end certainly doesn't like the road crown there's a little bit of a wash there but overall this thing's been solid tons of power that's what I was gonna ask what's the power like when you're passing though because that's part of it it's squashing the suspension because it's so powerful I've yet to have to put my foot to the floor nice I've maybe given it a 75 throttle input tops today and there's been I mean at one point I had to get past the truck quick and I blanked down and uh don't tell the OPP but I saw 158 so it's there's tons of power yeah absolutely plus it's not the OPP that's right the RCMP I'm not in Ontario I'm sorry that's funny okay folks first wildlife sighting I know it's really far away but that little black dot in the center of your screen that is a black bear hopefully it'll move now he's on the move there he goes I spotted him across the field this is just south of Smithers British Columbia yeah we've seen more deer than I can count but I haven't even really been getting shots because we've all seen a million deer before but that's our first bear right on talking about the power and I'm noticing it right now we're coming down this long grade it's actually called six mile hill it's a pretty long hill probably six miles no it's not quite six miles anyways we're coming down this hill and the engine shuts off this ICE the actual internal combustion engine loves to shut off every chance it gets and the only thing I really appreciate about this digital gauge cluster you get an i-force gauge and then you get what they call a max gauge now the max is telling you how much electrical output is being delivered from that electric motor the i-force gauge is telling you how much turbo boost you're getting and you can see my shots here as you're driving along you see it starts with the electric and then the turbo comes on it kind of takes over for the power actually I did like it when you really mat it they both kind of jump up and then the electric falls off but I just think that's really cool that Toyota gives you the information so you actually understand exactly what's happening and then another thing I want to mention because we actually had multiple questions about this mat you might actually be able to explain it better than me this is sort of what they would call a standard hybrid setup the battery doesn't die here it's not like a plug-in hybrid where the battery can be depleted the battery is constantly being charged through big brake deceleration and by the engine and then when you are decelerating or going downhill you'll build back up some of that power so we had a couple of those questions I just wanted to make that clear is that a decent explanation that is yeah okay of course one of the benefits of that engine shutting off like that should be good fuel economy and we are keeping track of all of our numbers we're going to do the math ourselves if I'm totally honest I don't really trust the computer in this truck because it's a pre-production truck I don't I don't think the numbers it's giving us are accurate so we're going to do it ourselves and we will report back all right so it's Friday morning we're fueling up just before we hit the road and this will be the second time we've filled so it's our first opportunity to actually calculate the mileage on this truck manually so what we do to try to keep it consistent is we will let this fill till it clicks off then wait 30 seconds then hit the nozzle again to make sure that it is actually full and then whatever that number is we will do the calculation and of course the most important thing is when all that's over I have to go inside and negotiate a loan to pay for all this oh hey what's what's happening today we're working brother we're always working I'm getting the latest video uploaded right now out of the truck because we have no time to stay in hotels and do uploads so we're working on the road baby you're the man who the man you the man ah you the man so yeah we're almost to our next dealer visit and then tonight we also are going to have some free time it's going to be one of our last nights with a bit of free time and some sleep and hopefully get some sleep um so what we want to do because we've had a lot of questions from the viewers thank you we're going to go out tonight and we're going to give you a really great look at all of the lighting features on these tundras okay folks now a quick wall test we're here in the dark with the lights just pointed right at a wall so these are just the regular low beams at night there's the fog lamps down low there you can see them apologize for the focus there's the high beams and now what I want you to notice about the high beams is that they're very much pointed directly in front of the truck and now watch when I turn on the light bar the light bar actually really widens the amount of light now the intensity in the very middle doesn't really change that much but the light bar really throws the light out to the sides and so that's what I think is cool if you were out off-roading on a dark dark trail you throw the light bar on and you're going to be able to see in front and to the side of this truck okay now here's the wall light test here in the trd off-road and of course we don't have that awesome light bar here so there's my fogs brings you the light down low and there's the high beams they are definitely quite bright but just a thinner amount of light for sure then you're going to get out of that trd pro with that big light bar well folks you asked and we are delivering we are out here to show you what these two tundras look like at night it's 11 p.m here in smithers bc i can't believe we're still awake because we have so much driving to do tomorrow but here we are so you can see what these trucks look like so here we have the trd off-road pretty basic light setup you do get a nice pair of fogs down there lower and then the upper headlights the trd pro though this is where the lighting gets crazy you get these unique kind of swooshes in the headlights the three marker lights across the grill the integrated light bar and this thing is not just there for looks it's functional now when you come over here i also have to point out that the turn signals in the front are cascading which is really a nice effect and that's only here on the pro not over there on the off-road now as we roll down the side you're also getting marker lights down there in your fenders again a little bit of an orange touch and this truck has lights here in the mirrors too so everyone knows when you're turning round back you get two more neat light setups first of all the taillight these also cascade when you're signaling i love that effect it's so cool and then finally when you're out here at night and you want to work you can light up this bed basically bright as day so that you can see whatever you are working on well folks we have arrived at the end of this video now if you've been following the series you might have noticed that we missed a day publishing well that's because we've been on the road but also there's no more cell service down in the south i was using that cell service to upload from the truck but that's no longer possible so i have to use wi-fi which generally isn't the fastest at the hotels we're staying at so i just can't guarantee it's coming every day but i promise we are working as hard as we can to bring you all of the goods from this tundra to the arctic trip now next video we're gonna finally discuss the big numbers those being fuel economy so make sure you stay tuned