re: explain to me why a person would want to buy electric vehicle (like ford f-150 lightning)

If you've never driven an EV you will not understand, and I say this as someone who drove stick shifts for twenty years.

The style of driving for a pure EV is really top-notch. They are the smoothest acceleration, quickest off the line, and nicest to .. brake. Yeah, never thought I'd say that, but regen braking is so much smoother than normal braking.

You mention cost, depending on how much you drive, it will pay itself off in 3 years or so relative to the sticker difference of the old school gas engine and that's just counting never filling up with gas again. You throw in the $7k fed rebate (and I think $2k for LA if they're still doing that) and that's 7-9k in your pocket to either help pay that loan off of put into an investment account (because yeah it will be cash in your pocket).

Here's another benefit most people on here probably don't realize. With the newer EVs, you can actually pull power out of them. IE, they are generators. That's pretty handy in a power outage scenario.

Now, there's still room for hybrids. For example, when I evacuated for Ida having a hybrid was clutch because not only did I not need to fill up that often, but I also wasn't stuck looking for charging stations.

So the only real drawback of an EV right now is charging. You'll have to learn to just charge to 80% on road trips and just get used to that. But once EV charging infrastructure is up to parity with gas, only crazy weirdos or really niche usecases will prefer ICE.