I can fill my RAM 1500 in five minutes and drive 500 miles. My cost per mile when considering cost of vehicle and maintenance etc. is less than an electric car. When an electrical truck can do this at the same cost to me without a government subsidy I will buy one. I am familiar with chemistry, energy fuel density, cost analysis, and how much those damn batteries weigh.
When Air Force One takes off from Washinton DC and flies non stop to Tokyo at full gross weight with only battery power I will buy an electric vehicle. It will not happen.
“I can fill my RAM 1500 in five minutes and drive 500 miles. My cost per mile when considering cost of vehicle and maintenance etc. is less than an electric car”
You are a flat out liar. There is no way a Ram 1500 can touch any EV in cost per mile. You said electric car not truck and I am going to call you on it hard. The 450hp model 3 Tesla new is 35,000 used 2023 is 28k you cannot touch a 1500 ram of equal year for less than $40,000 in any trim. So nearly double capital expenditure upfront for the truck. At best you will get 25mpg with the V6 but bro bros want the V8 which is 20mpg or less.
So ignoring capital sunk costs and going to your cost per mile only at 20mpg 87 octane is 3.46 per gallon today that’s 17.3 cents per mile in fuel costs.
A model 3 Tesla takes 180 watt hours per mile and goes 5.5 miles for each kilowatt hour added. Retail power in Texas is 9 cents per kWh I just looked at power2choose.org our state run deregulation broker site.
This is elementary school math now. 9 cents divided by 5.5 miles is 1.63 cents per mile that’s ten times cheaper per mile with a vehicle that cost less new. You messed up when you compared cars to trucks a car will always be more efficient.
So let’s look at a class 8 truck you know a semi truck with a trailer vs your 1500. 82,000lbs vs 8,000. PepsiCo has released real.world data from max mass loads on their Tesla semi truck they have an average 1.7kwh per mile over a 400 mile run. This is with 82,000lbs of vehicle total. What’s that cost mile? Easy again 9 cents per kWh is 15.3 cents per mile. A Tesla semi moving a load ten times th gross mass of your 1500 which could not dream to move is still cheaper per mile. A fully loaded semi truck is less mile than a light duty gas truck math on a energy per mile basis.