Ford F-150 Lightning Owner Explains Why He Sold It After 6 Months

[Trav]

The irrational hatred of EV's is pretty funny. If you don't like them, don't buy one. For some uses they don't make any sense, for others they are great. My wife and I have two vehicles. At this point one EV and one IC make the most sense. Horses for courses.

I wonder what political party the haters belong to.

Get this straight, there is no irrational hatred of EV's there is a genuine hatred of having them shoved down the throat in the name of some agenda and false narrative then taking taxpayer money to give to someone who doesnt need it to subsidize them.
If someone wants an EV buy it, pay for it without incentives and enjoy it while keeping it as an alternative for ICE owners not a replacement.
At some point the nut cases come with "well, oil is subsidized" as if oil was only used for gasoline, they ignore jet fuel, heating oil, plastics, blacktop, fabrics and many other things used every day on top of the enormous tax base it brings.

 

[demarpaint]

Get this straight, there is no irrational hatred of EV's there is a genuine hatred of having them shoved down the throat in the name of some agenda and false narrative then taking taxpayer money to give to someone who doesnt need it to subsidize them.
If someone wants an EV buy it, pay for it without incentives and enjoy it while keeping it as an alternative for ICE owners not a replacement.
At some point the nut cases come with "well, oil is subsidized" as if oil was only used for gasoline, they ignore jet fuel, heating oil, plastics, blacktop, fabrics and many other things used every day on top of the enormous tax base it brings.

Good points. I wonder where all the electricity is going to come from to power all these EVs and this Supercharger network? I haven't found a fact based answer yet. Wind and solar farms? LOL. Nukes, a lot of the people driving these EVs to save the planet fear them. So we might have to circle back to oil, coal, and natural gas.

 

[Trav]

Time to get into the candle business. LOL
As much as I despise woke NPR at least this is funny.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/...-an-energy-crisis-germans-stock-up-on-candles

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

I can’t even imagine spending $88K on a depreciating asset, let alone a FORD ELECTRIC one!

Anything I spend over $88,000 on better have at least a kitchen and a den inside of it.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

They get their way, most will be looking for a good cave to live in & some wood to burn for heat. I honestly can't figure out what their insane endgame is... (I know, political) Unless it's build & fire up a HUGE number of nukes & try really hard to solve the fusion question.

End game = One simple thing. CONTROL.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

The charging network is going to have to get insanely larger if in the future we are all driving EVs. Have you ever had to wait 20 minutes on a holiday to get gas on a busy interstate with 10 gas lanes and multiple pumps in each lane? Imagine that scene if instead of taking 5 minutes to fill up each car took 30-60 minutes. I already see full-up chargers with people waiting on the interstate.

What about when several million people are trying to scram out of harms way? Like out of Florida or elsewhere in front of a major
hurricane etc.... Or even a toxic train derailment when 100,000 etc are ordered to leave like with Califonia firestorms people get chased from their homes and towns for? Too creepy to ponder I suppose.

 

[jeepman3071]

What's curious is people buy vehicles that don't "fit" them all the time-trade them in and roll over the negative equity. It happens. Yet-this guy gets a youtube video and a thread on here.

Yeah I don't get it, since these people are usually the ones complaining vehicles are so expensive.

 

[Dave_T]

It was a very big deal in 1974 if you were around......

So one unforgettable event in a lifetime? Absolutely no worse than what we all faced a handful of years ago with the chaotic/idiotic toilet paper hoarding, rationing, waiting in lines, going store-store...

 

[Torrid]

Weird. Another thread full of BS. "Dah gubment makin' us buy deez newfangled electric thingys!" Seriously though it's a growing market but are these stupid SUV and truck monstronsities are easily available to run me the hell over in traffic. Everyone has gotten so stupid with this crap and lifted trucks at least in my area are at an all time high. Taller and more lifted than ever before. I wish laws were enforced on these toolbags. They can't see out of the crap and go out of the way to drive like imbeciles.

This political angle on this is beyond the dumbest thing I've ever heard. People are riled up and literally being dangerous in the hatred of them. I get that you don't like the direction of this but getting angry with those that drive them thinking they're making it worse for this supposed mandate(read it, it's not a mandate that as written that has a slight chance in hell of sticking.) Don't contribute to the problem. It's irrational and it just becomes a **** measuring contest where the least educated tries to win. If anything those that adopt it might be enough that that they might not see it as a problem, but when 50% of the vehicles that pass by my house are loud ass tuned trucks and full size SUVs and if this is anything that shows a snapshot of what's selling, you're your own worst enemy. No one seems to have any ability to conserve anything because "I want to daily drive my 10mpg pavement princess." It's irrational, stupid waste of money and resources and embarrassing. This is the only country in the world where people seem to think like this. ****ing stupid.

 

[JeffKeryk]

@Torrid ignore the haters. No big deal.