Where’s the savings!!!!

[VAL.ABAPO]

Well I was paying $100 PER fillup for my 6.7L Powerstroke. Now I'm paying $15 per "fillup" at home for my Lightning. BIG savings.

Then my insurance went down $350/year. Probably because of the loads of safety crap on this Lightning. So there's more savings.

I also don't have to buy 3 gallons of diesel oil, a $30 oil filter, a $75 set of fuel filters once or twice per year now. Nor do I have to worry about axle fluids, t-case fluid, transmission services, etc.

I guess my annual registration/taxes will be higher because it's a new truck, but the monthly savings will offset that greatly.

Im coming from a Jeep andy insurance went up(?)

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[WXman]

Im coming from a Jeep andy insurance went up(?)

Jeeps are a dime a dozen and easy and cheap to fix. Not as much risk to the insurance companies.

 

[davehu]

I'm at the 2yr/20k mile anniversary. 3200 miles on the highway and 16,500 around town. I have spend $1600 on electricity, $858 from home ($0.11/kwhr) , $740 DCFC. with gas prices at 2.70/gallon, fast charging is way too expensive to justify taking my lightning on trips. We'll take my wifes car (30mpg) until gas prices tick up again. But my former vehicle was a Chevy Avalanche that averaged 18 miles per gallon. for the same milage I would have spent about $3,100 on gas so my lightning has saved me over $1500 in 2 years. it will grow when gasoline gets up to the mid $3 price, which we know it will. Also I spent zero on maintenance and insurance on my $80k Lightning is within 5% of my my wifes 8 year old ($50k when new) Honda Pilot.

Net: The Lightning saves me plenty and is a blast to drive

 

[K6CCC]

I'm in southern California so 87 octane gas is just under $4.00 at Costco (where I bought most of my gas) up to $5.something at some other places. My prior truck was getting 10.8 mpg when I traded it in, so 36 to 40 cents per mile for gas.
In comparison, as of yesterday I have 10,334 miles on the truck and have spent $768.22 for electricity which comes out to just over 7.4 cents per mile for electricity. This is in 6.5 months I was spending about $500.00 per month on gas - so $768 in six months is a huge savings (and I'm driving more now).

 

[NW Ontario Ford Lightning]

For my Ram 2500 I spent $150-160 per week, 52 weeks a year.
For the Lightning I spend $10-12 per week...and no oil, exhaust, diff, transfer case fluids.
During good sunny weather the charging is "free" from solar. During winter about $2/day on overnight charging.
In January 2025 the ICE F-150 XLT was the same price as the Lightning XLT, and the Lightning has a lot more nice optional features on it.
For my use and local cost of Gasoline at $4USD/Gal the lightning will be like it was free compared to the ICE after 8 years of driving on not-gas. Mostly local driving, charge at home.
Really the best thing with the EV is warming up the cabin on electricity for cheap instead of remote starting an ICE just to warm up the truck in -20 weather, burning gasoline while driving zero miles doing it. I wonder how many gallons of gas are used per winter in N.America to just warm up cars and trucks for the occupants. It must be a crazy amount. 0 miles per gallon heating.

In 8 years time, some new super batteries will be the new EV standard, get 600 miles range, charge in 10 minutes, be lighter and cost half what we paid for our trucks...looking forward to it!

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