One has to be driving a lot and have a vehicle that gets crappy gas mileage. Somebody that drives 15K miles a year and averages 20 miles to the gallon at $4 per gallon is only going pay $3K per year for gas..
His F350 doesn’t get 20 mpg.
36,000 moles plus per year, formerly 28 mpg at $3 to $4 over the years it was driven was $4500 per year. That same 36,00 miles in my model 3 would cost me $720 if I had to pay the retail 8 cents per kWh in Texas that’s at 250 watt hours per mile, I have been averaging 180 lately. It’s free for me mostly since it charges off solar panels above it paid off years ago. I take it to Austin at least monthly sometimes every weekend in the spring and fall outdoors season to my Austin condo or lake house in centex. Houston every 6 weeks or so. I am averaging 25K per year on the Tesla vs 36K for the Volvo remote sat data from rigs post covid makes the difference.
Point is I was spending $4500 and now if I had to drive the same distance it would be $720 really less I upped the energy use vs what it has been averaging. Mind you the payment on the Tesla is half what the Volvo was over the same 60 month note period.