Just picked up a F150 Lightning EV
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Price of electricity in Texas is 15.61 cents per kilowatt hour. Price of electricity in Germany is 41 cents per kilowatt hour. The dem party was working hard on getting the US to the Euro electricity model. Because they care? More example of our leftards being totally ignorant about numbers and shit. Buck and Ern the poster children for the most expensive education system on the planet.
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lol if I go EV it will be a Taycan.
I see no point in an EV pickup truck. -
Yawn.
Why can't electrical prices come down and why have they for many, if they can't? There seems to be a bug. -
It needs a better battery.
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Are you suggesting that new developing technologies always become more efficient, robust, and economical over time, or am I being wooshed?
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In normal private industry you are right. But public utilities don’t work like that bro. They have guaranteed profit margins, so the incentive isn’t to produce more output at lower cost, it is to produce more costs for the same output.
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And to produce at a level below demand to keep high margins.
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@Kaepsknee is your argument that electriciy has risen over 4 years? Gas prices in Washington 4 years this month were 2.96 an I am sitting in a coffee shop looking at 4.06 across the street…thats a 40% increase. SMH
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Is Buck "with" you?
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How much of the increase is due to carbon taxes?
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One of my conservative friends got triggered when I told him I got an EV. And the thing is, I didn’t buy it for the environment, I did an analysis of my finances and to power my vehicle for a month dropped from $500 to $200. It will drop to $0 as soon as I get my solar roof (which thank you all for funding both my car and roof)
Do all of you think like this and can’t understand doing analysis on your finances??? I mean it would explain how dumb people like EverettChris think. -
$500 per month in gas? Do you deliver pizza?
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I drove a RAM 2500 previously and I drove a lot. I like to do stuff what can I say.
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Well you’re not getting either because you can’t figure out a compensation package so I doubt you can figure out what to pay for a car.
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Your roof isn't free.
Also, have you factored in the depreciation hit you'll take on the Lightning? It will plummet in value much quicker than an ICE F-150.
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I drive all my cars into the ground so it doesn’t matter. My cars aren’t an investment.
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with a middling 150k base comp on salary I sure as shit hope not.
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Still don’t get it I see. Do you know my base salary was double Bezos base salary when he was around? See if you can figure out what that means for both me and Bezos.
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I’m just finally catching up on this thread. Let me get this straight. It was a bad idea to buy this EV because you have to charge up that many times on a road trip that I would do (and probably most of you now) once every 5 years ?
Damn no wonder y’all suck at your finances y’all kinda retarded. -
How old was your last truck and how many miles did you put on it?
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2014 and it had 195000 miles. Remember COVID got in the middle of that
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Okay, so assuming you keep the Lightning (it lasts) 10 years for the same miles:
- Gas savings ($300 / mo times 120 mos.) = $36k
- Less
- Higher MSRP over comparable ICE
- Higher value lost to depreciation (ICE or EV, both will have some value at the end of your use, but the ICE will be worth more and probably by a factor of 2)
- Lost time / value of time / hassle with electric charging for at least some period of ownership
Not really seeing the benefit there. Hopefully the battery pack has a good warranty and you don't have to replace it during your ownership.
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While we're talking about good financial decisions and cars, the smarter move would have been to buy used and not an EV.
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With a $7500 federal credit and whatever state credits or grants are available you aren't comparing apples to apples. If EVs could compete straight up with ICEs, they wouldn't need the subsidy. But they do.
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I might spend $90 a month on gas. EV batteries are like $8,000. Fuck that. Buck will learn the hard way.
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I don’t know where you got the idea that EV version of the F-150 is more expensive than its respective ICE counterpart. It isn’t. Go look at the local dealerships, they’re the same exact price. In some cases the EV is lower.
Obviously I factored that in when I made this decision.
There is ZERO hassle in recharging. I’m always charging to I always leave my house with a full tank and recharge it at night. I used a Tesla charger once in December to get some experience using it and I’ve never had to use a public charger since then.
Finally the fact that I can run any car off the road while at the same time be faster than almost any car on the road with the torque….that thing is a dream. Remember I had had an ICE truck for ten years that I loved so I have no dog in this fight, it’s just the truth. -
Great logic Bill!! I should base my decisions on what I buy based on how many miles YOU drive it instead of how many miles I drive it.
Lol I don’t know what’s in the water today but yall are making posts as dumb as EverettChris today. Snap out of it! -
A quick search at my local Ford - $13k more for the SuperCrew Lightning (with tax credit included).
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I didn’t qualify for the $7500 so I AM comparing apples to apples. Lightnings weren’t selling well until Ford started aggressively pricing them in the last year which then brought them on par with their ICE counterparts. Again, if it wasn’t so, I would have factored that in but that does t change the fact I got the pricing where I wanted.
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Ok let’s start with Soundford and see if you can’t get the Lariat Lightning at the same price as the Lariat ICE.
Let me know what you find out
