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Gas pickup truck cheaper than Tesla Cybertruck on road trips

Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:26 pm
Posted by rickgrimes
Member since Jan 2011
4307 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:26 pm
At least according to this person's experience:

This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 2:27 pm
Posted by Strannix
C.S.A.
Member since Dec 2012
52686 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:28 pm to
Electric vehicles are useless unless for any type of travel over 100 miles or so. What a joke
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128557 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:31 pm to
Electric vehicles only make sense for people that only use it for commuting and driving around town.
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 2:32 pm
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
31327 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:33 pm to
Cybertrucks are pieces of shite and gas is currently extremely cheap, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
Posted by 0x15E
Outer Space
Member since Sep 2020
14735 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:34 pm to
And how much extra time did he have to sit and wait for the damn thing to charge.

When I fill up the truck, It’s 10min total from the exit to getting back on the interstate.
Posted by Gorilla Ball
Az
Member since Feb 2006
12762 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:35 pm to
Agreed. My cousin lives in shreveport and traveled to br recently- i forgot how many stops he made at about 15-20 each stop. I’d think driving locally or city driving would be beneficial but long road trips would suck
Posted by RedmanChew
Member since Jun 2024
447 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:36 pm to
Plug in hybrids make sense for commuters but full electric may never actually be viable.

Even plug in hybrids are a stretch as far as economics. I drive a Prius Prime, but if you weigh the additional original cost over the regular Prius, it isn’t worth it.

(To be clear, I only have mine after buying it off a relative who was going into assisted living, so it was unrealistically cheap.)
Posted by Eighteen
Member since Dec 2006
36836 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:37 pm to
Gas is really cheap right now and the Cybertruck isn’t meant for regular long road trips

And he doesn’t have to get an oil change after the road trip, too.

Posted by Clames
Member since Oct 2010
18746 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:38 pm to
Pay for supercharging or spend extra days getting to a destination on slower chargers.
Posted by FutureMikeVIII
Houston
Member since Sep 2011
1607 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:39 pm to
quote:

Electric vehicles only make sense for people that only use it for commuting and driving around town.


So like 95+% of the use case of personal vehicles?
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
132919 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:41 pm to
Yeah, but can you really put a price in driving around in a 4 year olds drawing?
Posted by Tortious
ATX
Member since Nov 2010
5635 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:43 pm to
quote:

I drive a Prius Prime


Took some nuts to say that on here
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
16261 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:44 pm to
That comes out to about .50/ kWh. That doesn’t make much sense considering that’s double the average rate.
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 2:49 pm
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
37701 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:45 pm to
I would want to know more. He is specifically saying superchargers and not other options. I've traveled long distance with EV and it was much cheaper and it was under $3 a gallon gas at the time
Posted by Twincam
Member since Nov 2021
928 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:49 pm to
Yeah but he's saving the planet
Posted by jafari rastaman
Member since Nov 2015
2470 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:52 pm to
Aren’t there some places that allow free charging?
Posted by Dadren
Jawja
Member since Dec 2023
2984 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:53 pm to
quote:

That comes out to about .50/ kWh. That doesn’t make much sense considering that’s double the average rate.

Yeah the math isn’t mathing. I’ve never seen supercharger rates that high before. Not even close.

Maybe he slept in it at night with the heat and lights because $0.20 per mile is really hard to believe.
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
16261 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:55 pm to
quote:

Yeah the math isn’t mathing. I’ve never seen supercharger rates that high before. Not even close.

Yeah there’s more to the story here. He was either towing/hauling or spent all 900 miles supercharging in Los Angeles at peak times. Nothing else makes sense.
This post was edited on 12/22/24 at 2:55 pm
Posted by RedmanChew
Member since Jun 2024
447 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:56 pm to
quote:

Took some nuts to say that on here


Lol it’s pretty wimpy, but it’s been a solid car. Didn’t really want it, but all I had to do was pay off the rest of my aunt’s note when she got too senile so I basically got a $27k car for $9k. Eventually I want an old truck again, I miss mine.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
87632 posts
Posted on 12/22/24 at 2:59 pm to
quote:

Yeah but he's saving the planet


after killing a bazillion fossil fuels to generate the juice to charge that POS
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