Thank you!
We're so glad that you're loving your truck!!Two years on the road, 19,504 miles, 12.887 megawatt hours of energy which has cost $3,547 total, comes to 18.18 cents a mile.
The former truck, which was a F250 PSD, averaged 21 cents a mile the 10 years I drove it. The first two years of the PSD's service life cost $4,028 in diesel to drive 14,625 miles, a pace of 27.5 cents a mile, I was towing more then!
The Lightning is still a blast to drive, it fits our lifestyle and travel needs, maintenance is substantially cheaper so far and has had no defects or problems to date.
The savings was for the full year or for the fourth quarter?The Lightning took the day off today so I could enjoy a mild weather ride on my Harley, a glorious 67 miles of smiles on December 31st, it's a blessing this time of year. It's a new bike with only 1404 miles since October 17th, I burned 35.44 gallons of premium fuel, costing $133.86 for an efficiency of 39.6 MPG and 9.6 cents a mile for fuel
The secretary of my treasury drove her ICE on our daily rounds, and topped up her tank, she only drove 1004 miles in 2024 and used 57 gallons of premium fuel costing $203, for an average 17.6 MPG and 20.3 cents a mile for fuel, as you can see we really enjoy using the Lightning over her car.
Now onto the fourth quarter weekly charging numbers for the Lightning!!
The charts show my increased use of E-heat and lowered MPK efficiency {2.0 to 0.8 mpk}, this is because of a lot of "off the plug" departure time or remote climate start to prepare the cabin for a ride.
I really enjoy the comforts of my Lariat after spending 10 years driving my former F250 PSD which is a very cold blooded truck in XLT trim, it had no creature comforts like E-heater to warm the cabin faster than the Powerstroke ever could during most of my commutes to work, lacked heated wheel, no heated seats, an overall chilly miserable 10 years in that truck, so you can see why I'm enjoying all the comforts in my 2022 F150 Lightning.
Final statistics for the year. 7502 miles, 5095.1 kWh of energy that cost me $1683 of mostly home charging, with a five DCFC sessions during the year costing 33.03 cents a kWh on average, 1.47 MPK or 22 cents a mile for just energy cost of operation.
The savings over diesel fuel came to $1066 this year which includes an apportionment of the More-EV-Truck credit, without that credit, the savings is a modest $129 dollars.
Take note, I'm acceleration junkie, I also idle with heat on in the cold season more than most folks, knowing it has negative impact on efficiency and range, it's rarely a problem because seldom do I take the truck on long trips, when I do, I behave but not to the level of some of you expert hypermilers!
The cost to operate, includes maintenance, inspection, insurance, less an annual allocation of $938 for my More-EV-Truck credit from Massachusetts, though I got this credit the year of purchase, I'm including it as a credit over 8 years of anticipated operations, this essentially helps me justify the exhobinant energy costs in my market, based on this years numbers, that amounts to about 18 cents a kwh value against the 33 cents I'm paying for retail energy.
Looking forward to the next 5+ years until the warranty has run its course and no major failures happen over that time frame.
Happy New Year 2025, lets see what I can accomplish in the coming year.
BTW: I hope to get the race bike up and running this spring, so there will be more trailer towing activity in 2025 if my plan comes together.
I didn't set up a quarterly recap within the spreadsheet, but savings analysis shows monthly apportionments on the red highlighted rows and entire year on the bottom row of the of the chart.
I guess if I had looked closer or did the math that would make sense-LOL
