My Ford Mustang Mach-E Costs 14 Cents Per Mile, While My Ford Maverick Runs At 10 Cents,The Numbers Make My Next Road Trip Car An Easy Choice

Sorry, but you were on a road trip. Unless you spend your entire life driving long distances, you entire article is pointless to the typical motorist. Everyone who knows anything about EVs knows that high power rapid DC charging is much more expensive than charging it at home - where (if you have any brains at all) you could be doing it for free if you have PV and (and ideally a battery). Even on a basic domestic electricity tariff, home charging would make the cost of powering your electric car at least half that of a petrol one. Here in Europe it is more like 1/5th and if you can find a really cheap tarif (like I have) it's 1/10th the cost of driving an ICEV.

I own a '24 MME 4x Premium and it's a great province car. Not just city, but across the province. In Ontario (which could hold three Texas sized states) we can drive from Toronto to Ottawa on one charge. Toronto to Montreal with a 20 minute top up (in Kingston) and Toronto to London and back on one charge. Even Manitoulin is double with two charges.
So, no I wouldn't say a gas car is better. I think you have to consider the 2000km plus trips are very rare. The 1500km and under is where this car shines. And frankly, that's 90%+ of anyone's driving.

I tend to agree. I've driven electric for almost ten years now, and it's ridiculously cheaper when used from home, but even with free supercharging, intend to rent a car for long trips so that I don't have to worry about charging infrastructure.
One day it'll be great, but not yet. It's not about the time to charge, because it's done charging before I can get my wife and kid back in the car, and it's not even cost, because the Maverick they compared it to here is a statistical anomaly as far as the cost to operate because it's based on a small SUV.
But even though I've taken a couple of long trips in an EV now without any real problems, it still requires more thinking than I want to do on a long trip.

For longer trips the math makes sense but for the trip he took he should have driven all the way there without charging and charged overnight. Would use the math/ cost of home charging for the first half and the cost of the supercharger for the return and averaged it out.
But for longer trips and trips that require multiple charging stops his math and decision can make sense. Especially for a person with multiple cars and options.

As soon as public charging needed, an EV is not worth the hassle. I have no problem keeping 1 or 2 in the family fleet, but for the time being we always need ICE vehicles in the stable as well. EVs suck for road trips. The added time and cost over your average ICE vehicle for long trips is real. Heck the added time alone is deal breaker for me. I would rather drive a big slob V8 truck than an EV on a long trip.

This article makes the case that EVs are practically city cars. One cannot always depend on Tesla Superchargers being available, particularly off major highways. Based on 10 cents per mile energy cost, the Maverick must have been a non-hybrid model. I’d like to see the comparison against the hybrid model.

Please include the excessive insurance costs as well as rapid depreciation and double the tire replacement cost to the actual cost of an electric vehicle that other people had to subsidize so EVers could somehow feel better about themselves To casually think that the taxpayers should pay for more remote chargers shows how ignorant some people are. EVs are a failed policy brought to you by failed politicians that cost our country trillions of dollars by the time they are all bought and paid for. Having the ability to to not have to dig into the taxpayers pocket Hybrids are a good environmental compromise as well as a good economic value. Our country can put those trillions to better use for our environment. We shouldn't have to subsidize car purchases for misinformed people that can afford to buy a hybrid vehicle themselves.

What a hassle! Why do people endure this needlessly. This is precisely why EVs are not for me. At least not yet. And all those Ford recalls? We sold our previous Ford last year. Won't go near them now. Sad.

You are comparing to road trips and not actual daily drives. Yes gas is cheaper. Over all, electric is cheaper, I pay 30 bucks flat fee. Your not charging outside of your house that often. On road trips and if you forgot to charge and going long distant that day you may need to. Between both cars I pay 30 bucks per 700 miles driven. With has I was paying 600 a month. Electric hand down is cheaper

It is simply amazing how people who own electric vehicles don’t even know what they are they are paying. No one is paying $0.02/kwh. The fact you published this shows how little you know. There is a generation fee and a delivery fee. Con Ed is the cheapest at $0.0249 from midnight to 8am. But that’s only delivery. You still have to add on generation. Just fake news. There isn’t a word of anything factual any more.

Unfortunately most of my driving isn't road trips. So not an issue for me.

I purchased 2 Mach e that I charge at home with solar. The system is already paid (2017 with a 5 year payout). My daughter charges the Chevy bolt for free at her apartment parking or at her office

Yes, if you make up numbers, one is better than the other. 3 dollr a gallon gas? Right. And what about oil and brake wear? Two years ago, I drove from Portland to Las Vegas in my M3, $9.48 total cost in electricity, one way. That 1000 miles and over mountains. And why do you care who owns whatever charger you use. Do you whine and blame the vehicle if there are no shell gas stations and only Arco?

Yup, public charging damages the cost per mile advantage (before the comparison of amortized maintenance cost per mile). The only solution is to charge mostly at home and recognize that road trips cut into the very real cost advantage.

I am an EV early adopter of a 2019 Chevy Bolt EV. I have had my car for 5.5 years.
Electricity in Seattle costs ~ $ 0.13 per KWh. To operate this car costs $ 0.03 for electricity and $ 0.03 for tire wear. I charge at Level 2 (220 volt AC). There is very little maintenance that is done except rotate tires and a carefully under chair rage inspection every 7500 miles. This is my cost structure for local driving and shorter road trips.
When I travel cross country it is more expensive, but typically my travels about 35% on the gasoline dollar. As more EVs take the road, and more faster DC chargers are installed. Battery charging times are improving with higher powered chargers and Nextel generation battery technology. The Hyundai Iconic 6 charges to 80% SOC in 18 minutes. Faster charging for EVs increases the net charging work and improves existing charger access.
It is unfair to judge charging on a single trip as compared to an ICE car.
My EV is remarkably reliable. The performance of the motor is consistent and no decrease in performance is detected.
Range anxiety only ocurres on road trips. Start with a full charge, plan your trips, consider staying at a EV Hotel which have level 2 and level 3 chargers. Wake up with a full charge.

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Nobody I know pays 2 c a KWH for home charging … it’s 12 c off peak at home in Houston , 25 c off peak in Los Angeles per KWh

That, or get a Tesla where all this stuff is built in properly

Are you kidding me? Apples to oranges as the trucks are in two completely different markets. Making an argument solely based on long road trips? Sell Fuller brushes I guess. Where I live we’ve $5 gallon gas and 6.3 pennies/kwh. Our MME gets 3.7 miles/kWh and the Lightning 2.4. I commute 100 miles a day and the only way a Maverick competes is on initial cost/depreciation. On strict “mileage” the Lightning buries it at 80 mpge. And heat destroys ICE engines and a hybrid is like owning two powertrains.

My wife's Mach E is $0.00/mi because we have solar that covers our house use and 2 EVs.

It came with a level 2 home charger, but we already had one, so $500 off! Pretty sure it used to be more, but Trumpifs.

What's ironic is that a Mustang is her commuter because it's more efficient than my Solterra, the family car.

I'll save $40k/decade.

Your Maverick do that;)?

This is a single case scenario. I've just completed my first year of BEV ownership and I'm only buying an ICE vehicle, in the future, for nostalgia.
I live in Detroit MI. I'm a 50 yr old male and I love cars. I currently have 2 Ford trucks, a Tundra crew cab, a Lincoln Continental Town Car coupe 74 and sedan 73. And I've owned several American, Japanese, S. Korean and German sedans in the past. And I've never bought a new car, always used. I understand maintenance, trust me.
Last year in May I sold my AWD MKZ and Hyundai Equus both '14 MY. After months of research I flew to Atlanta and bought a '22 MY Mercedes EQS 450+ rwd. On that drive back to Michigan we stopped at 2 Walmarts and a VW factory to charge. Each time for about 40 minutes for a 90% or higher charge. Not what I expected but it got better.
Since then we've driven to Maryland twice and Miami for a Christmas, New Year trip. Now we only charge to 80% to get to the next station. From less than 10% to 80% takes 20 minutes. I drive 70-80 on the highway. And now I can charge at most Flying Js because of their GM collaboration. I was even lucky enough to get free charging on my Florida trip, thanks EA. The most I have ever paid to charge was $55 and that was when I used to charge above 80%. Road trips feel so much more relaxing without stopping at the pump rushing, trying to imitate a pit crew.

Find yourself a good used EV and pay for the digital extras and you won't regret the smoothest ride (1 speed trans) instant torque and money saved.

His Maverick is not going to get 30mpg on a mountain road. Average price per kW in NC is $.33c. Most of his trip was powered by his house electrical rate.

I know EVs aren't the "free" ride we've been promised, but I'm tired of these bad examples. Add in all the expenses that come with ice vehicles and that cost per mi climb quickly. Engine Oil is at least $.01/mile. Not to mention diff & transmission changes/repairs. Air filters. Plugs or Def fluid. Belts. Cat convertors... Add up all the ICE specific maintenance and divine my the mi you drive that vehicle and in the end you'll add probably $.05 mi over a ev

Sorry Torque, but the math doesn't work. More than half his trip was done with low-cost energy, since he started at 100% with home energy.

Superchargers are just less expensive than 50¢/kWh. I completed a 1400 mile round trip, and no Supercharger session cost more than 38¢/kWh, one was as low as 19¢/kWh. So I'm not sure where he's getting 50¢. I also charged and left to return home at 100% for 0¢/kWh at my AirBnB, meaning it was even cheaper, as I arrived at my rental at 3% SoC, and had a full charge by the next morning.

This is the real EV math that is missing. When you have a gas car, and you want to save money, you just don't stop at the most expensive station. You use a tool like Gas Buddy or Waze to find the cheapest gas/gallon (or litre). Same with an EV: you use a tool like ABRP or Plugshare to find the cheapest energy/kWh.

Once you get subsidies removed from both, recalculate. Gas remains more convenient, but that comes at a cost of... foreign entanglements.

Twgile this is informative. It doesn't take into concern that most trups/travel are withing 100 miles of home and most charging is performed at home. With the likes of FPL and their off-peek at home charging plan EVlution which is a flat $38/m there is no way yo compair Gas to Electric. As gas would take 4 or more fillups per month (likely closer to 6-8 per month) at lets say 38 each where all of those would be included in the one time charge for the EV. A substantial savings...

You might have a point if most of your miles are for long road trips in areas with cheap gas...but if you're mostly charging at home for $0.12/kwh, you're paying $0.04/mile for the Mach-E. And if your gas is $4.50 instead of $3 per gallon, your Maverick costs $0.15/mile. In this scenario, instead of being 29% less, the Maverick is almost 275% more! And that's even before factoring in the cost of maintenance, which is vanishingly small on an electric.

If you want an even more fair comparison, then factor in other costs, like depreciation and insurance. There's a lot more than just fuel costs that make up the total cost of a vehicle.

Your mistake was picking a Ford instead of a Tesla. The experience would have been very different

But if you charge it at home before you leave, the cost goes way down. And some hotels gives you a free unlimited charges.

My wife and I just drove from Okeechobee Florida to Covington georgia, exactly 500 miles each way. Our charge at home is somewhere between free, we have solar system, and 7 cents per kilowatt hour. When we know we're going to make a long trip or two in one month we pay the $13 for the Tesla membership which drops the per kilowatt hour price about 30 cents. And then of course the advantage of making a long trip on interstate and other divided highways is that the car is a lot of the work for you. I set the cruise control and then I occasionally touch the directional stalk to change lanes. The slightly longer stops to charge along the way really aren't much of a problem because we either have to walk the dog or we have to use the bathroom my cells and we try to coordinate with lunch and dinner stops. Sometimes the car is ready to go before we are. You rarely get out of Buckee's any faster.