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 Post subject: Re: FS: 2023 Ford Lightning Platinum 200 miles “ ALL OPTIONS
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Ok, I don't know much about the EV market or the support system, so please educate me. What is a "free charger"? Someone giving out electricity?

Yes, something like a grocery store or a hotel with an outlet in front of it for electric cars. They don't exist much around my neck of the woods. As electric cars get more and more popular, I expect free charging will go the way of the do-do.

Tesla occasionally offers free supercharger use. They offered unlimited free on some older model cars. They most recently came out with 10,000 miles free supercharger use as an incentive in December last year, but only for that month.

It’s not going to be just electricity that isn’t going to be free. Wait until they start taxing for usage in order to make up for the lost gas tax, nobody is telling us about that yet.

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 Post subject: Re: FS: 2023 Ford Lightning Platinum 200 miles “ ALL OPTIONS
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You still have to pay the FET on the vehicle as well as the tires. Worst case scenario is you never use a free charger and it costs you just over 8 cents per mile for the energy usage. Depending on where you are in the country it could be a little more, or it could be a little less. I have plugged different destination locations into our vehicles and I haven’t really found anywhere that we can’t travel with the free chargers assuming you buy the $149 adapter off of Amazon so you can utilize both the Tesla chargers as well as the J1772 chargers. EV’s clearly aren’t for everyone but the majority of people could cut their energy - operating costs down by 75 to 100%.

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 Post subject: Re: FS: 2023 Ford Lightning Platinum 200 miles “ ALL OPTIONS
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It’s not going to be just electricity that isn’t going to be free. Wait until they start taxing for usage in order to make up for the lost gas tax, nobody is telling us about that yet.

They already do that. OK state charges me an extra $110/yr for a full electric vehicle.


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I was one of the early Lightning orders which originally was due for delivery in August 2022 - I finally took delivery in October and 5 months / 4000 mi later I couldn’t be happier with the purchase. The ride, utility, technology and performance are unparalleled in this type of vehicle. I’ve spent a lot of time in the Rivian and while it’s cool (and fast), it’s not on the same level in any one of those metrics. Yes I need to replace the dorky OEM rims but otherwise damn, it’s a cool truck.


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I was one of the early Lightning orders which originally was due for delivery in August 2022 - I finally took delivery in October and 5 months / 4000 mi later I couldn’t be happier with the purchase. The ride, utility, technology and performance are unparalleled in this type of vehicle. I’ve spent a lot of time in the Rivian and while it’s cool (and fast), it’s not on the same level in any one of those metrics. Yes I need to replace the dorky OEM rims but otherwise damn, it’s a cool truck.


That’s pretty cool. But, I think that the wheels are part of the electric drive motor cooling isn’t it? I like to punch the accelerator, let off and watch the auto braking regen … then click on the screen and see that the regen charged the battery back to where I started at.

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