If you could somehow convince a gassy vehicle to get 23 miles/gallon, you would be paying $0.22/mile at $5.18/gallon.
Even if I only get 2 miles/kWh, at $0.30/kWh, that's $0.15/miles. Still cheaper than gas.

Even though electricity is about $0.30/kWh at the home here in Altadena, the cost to drive my truck is still less than $0.05/mile.

The F-150 gassy vehicle supposedly gets 23 miles/gallon, which I don't believe for a second. I'll use it anyway. Gas costs about $5.18/gallon.

I had to drive the Lightning the other day. I did a round trip of about 40 miles and used less than 5% of the battery. That works out to about 6.2 miles/kWh, or 800 miles on a single charge. Almost everywhere I go when home requires getting on the freeway. But here, avoiding the freeway is ideal.

This flowchart isn't for anyone. Anybody who can drive a car can regularly road trip with an EV.

Please don't spread this myth around my EVs. They don't know they're supposed to be no good for frequent road trips and I'd like to keep it that way. I take one or the other on an 1100 mile road trip every month. We've taken them on ~45k miles of road trips. I'd hate for them to believe this myth.

This doesn't include the likely increase in costs of gas that's on the horizon. The maximum cost of gas in the model runs was $4.77/gal. If we include the price it's likely to jump to, the Lightning will pay for itself even sooner.

We've used our Lightning to power the house, field equipment, to run tools on the ranch, charge power tools, to camp. And it's cheaper than its ICE equivalent in the long term. My Monte Carlo simulation with 200,000 runs comparing costs. In 89.5% of the runs, the Lightning is cheaper w/in 2-3 yrs.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THE COUP?

We charge at home during super off-peak times. No time wasted on gas stations.
Cost is $0.035/kWh.
Lightning 💰: 131 kWh * 3.5¢/kWh = $4.59/full charge. In town we get ~3-3.5 miles/kWh, 393 miles/full charge.

Mustang: $3.21/full charge. And better range around town.