Extended warranty coverage. I just got one as my 36k warranty is ending and I'm keeping this truck for awhile. Those headlights and tail lights get $$$$. $2500 is well worth it compared to those parts failing out of warranty coverage. (Just be sure to get the light coverage)
I agree. I learned this lesson back on my 1st Prius (the Flintstone wheels Prius) back in 2002 or 2003, when its ECU the central electronic brain for that car fried itself about 17 miles short of the end of the warranty. The dealership clucked about it but replaced that critical electronic $970+ part for free.
Same here. If you really want to be made fun of go to this forum https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/forum311/ 99% of posters are EV haters that come over from the Diesel Super Duty Forum side. .
That's my guess. Dealers typically make around 50% of their income on maintenance. EV maintenance is very minor, so I suspect that's a big part of it.
With about 33,000 miles of EV road tripping (our typical road trip is ~500 miles one way), I agree. We sold our last ICE because road tripping in an EV is so much more pleasant and the ICE was just sitting and gaining years but not miles. We decided to sell it to someone who would actually use it.
Also, the maintenance/protection package. It covers the wearables that the extended warranty does not cover, and it pays for the routine service visits.
So you take multiple long road trips..
I routinely engage in EV and solar related threads on shooting forums. Talk about getting made fun of...at a minimum it usually devolves to questioning one’s sexuality.
Of course it does, but is should involve stating the need to have a vehicle that makes noise to compensate for a certain body part being small. ?
Of course I don't mind stopping every couple of hours. Neither does the dog. Neither do the kids.
When I did the calculations of a similarly priced four-wheel-drive lariat with the eco-boost engine versus the lariat lightning, I was already $1000+ ahead, including the $7500 tax incentive only! Add in the savings of go go juice and that should be at a minimum $1000 per year at 10,000 to 12,000 miles.
I wrote some software (well, spreadsheet functions) that model everything from the future cost of energy for the vehicle to the cost of maintenance to depreciation (first year and subsequent years), insurance, etc., etc., etc. I typically run 10,000 to 1 million simulations on each vehicle I'm comparing.
I'd love to hit that 20 year mark.I wrote some software (well, spreadsheet functions) that model everything from the future cost of energy for the vehicle to the cost of maintenance to depreciation (first year and subsequent years), insurance, etc., etc., etc. I typically run 10,000 to 1 million simulations on each vehicle I'm comparing.
Here's an example from a comparison between BEV and ICE Lariats. In this scenario, 85% of the time the Lightning was cheaper than the ICE. It all depends on variables, but I have to work at some really weird possibilities to make the ICE cost less (gas drops to <$1/gallon, etc). This scenario has a median of 18,000 miles/year driven for its runs (the miles driven per year is a variable in the simulation).
I wrote some software (well, spreadsheet functions) that model everything from the future cost of energy for the vehicle to the cost of maintenance to depreciation (first year and subsequent years), insurance, etc., etc., etc. I typically run 10,000 to 1 million simulations on each vehicle I'm comparing.
Here's an example from a comparison between BEV and ICE Lariats. In this scenario, 85% of the time the Lightning was cheaper than the ICE. It all depends on variables, but I have to work at some really weird possibilities to make the ICE cost less (gas drops to <$1/gallon, etc). This scenario has a median of 18,000 miles/year driven for its runs (the miles driven per year is a variable in the simulation).
