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Originally Posted by noclue
If you buy a truck for work or daily driving around town in which you do consider the running cost of an EV truck but if it's for pleasure use you want the freedom of a gas truck. Towing? Off-roading up a logging trail? Carrying extra jerry cans in the bed to increase range? Not having to plan precise stops to charge and hoping the charger is working? A F150 with the 136L tank I can drive from Vancouver to northern California in one shot, and with one 10min fill at a gas station anywhere along I5 I can get to San Fransisco by nighttime.
Plus he said his driving is mostly highway so the gas savings is negated somewhat.
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Not having to plan stops is pretty big. It really isn’t about charging since Google/Apple maps does this but it’s more about the hassle of trying to figure out whether there’s good food/washroom at the charging.
Highway traffic is actually the best fuel economy you'll get in EV (40-80kmh).
Even if you consume 2X the electricity, the cost per KM is so low that it's immaterial.
Lightning Suburban driving: 3c/km
Lightning Highway
towing: 9c/km
Gas City driving (17L): 29c/km
Gas Towing (30L): 51c/km