Cars are generally safer than awkward, high center of gravity trucks with primitive suspensions, horrible weight distribution and poor braking performance.

Cars generally handle better, stop better, have superior performance and traction than pickups.

Bruh.

When electricity is illegal, infinite gasoline will be free!

And thank God that gas cars don't have computers in them! Or a government that could stop them almost 2 decades ago!

The bigger vehicle wins all day long so long as it's not 20+ years old.

I like how you conveniently left out all the oil changes from this equation. And kindly show me a $37k Supercrew... With out getting into your time machine and going back to 1998.

1.  Almost no one empties the battery every day.
2.  Even if they did, the car charges while it is sitting in the garage.

This is probably one of the more reasonable options. Honestly there are a pile of under $30k cars that get around 30mpg or better that would still save OP hundreds of dollars a month.

The 2nd or 3rd owner might need to replace the battery. "New cars are usually kept for ...six years, because people want the latest features and technology, in addition to the new vehicle."
We will probably trade in the Mustang Mach-E  at just under 3 years. Not because it  will be worn out but because by then the newest model will have additional range and features. And the resale value is better if there is some warranty left.

Electric Vehicle Component Coverage: 8 years or 100,00 miles , with retention of 70% or more of the original High Voltage Battery capacity over that period.
Powertrain coverage: 5 years / 60,000 miles.
Bumper to Bumper coverage: 3 years / 36,000 miles
Ford Roadside Assistance is 5 years/60,000 miles

It's sort of like TEOTWAWKI movies.  Everything's a complete disaster.  Thankfully, really hot chicks with sexy clothes and great personalities are in great abundance.

That's the first thing I thought of with "gasser" in the title.

That is exactly what we did on Monday.....

I took the motorhome to the gas station today to fill up because we're going to go out of town on Thursday. I had to use three different credit cards to put 65 gallons in it because it kept shutting off when it got the $65 or $75 depending on the card.
And the pump was slow. It took me 15 minutes each way to the gas station plus about 20 minutes fueling.
The EV, I spent zero time getting to the charger and zero time standing by the charging station in the garage.
It reminded me of another reason I'm glad i bought the Mustang.

In every thread about Tesla's, there are always a number of people saying that you will need to replace the battery...  Seriously?  

The battery in a Tesla is warrantied for 8 years.  The expected life cycle of current generation Tesla batteries is over 20+ years based on actual data logged from customer cars.  

Tesla batteries are in no way similar in their life cycle to a Phone, Power tool, or Laptop battery.  Tesla batteries have an active thermal management system with a liquid coolant, heat pump, and radiator.  It cools under driving use, as well as when charging, and it heats the battery in winter. The heat/cooling cycles is what degrades batteries, consumer electronics use passive air cooling, while a car uses active liquid cooling.  

Old Nissan Leafs had a battery cooled by air only when driving, and those cars had some serious battery issues in the early years.  All modern EV's use liquid cooled systems.  A Tesla battery will easily last as long as the motor and trans in a gas car.

I have no idea if Tesla is the right answer.

I do know that a 15mpg truck is the wrong answer.

This is a good point for the "I don't want to wait hours to charge!" crowd. When I had my Volt, plugging in at home was great. When I moved closer to work I'd go months without the engine running at all. Get home, plug in, unplug when leaving. It's less than 5 seconds a day. It's stupid convenient.

If an EV fits the context of your needs, your home and your ability to charge it, they're really great. If you don't have a house and preferably a garage not packed full of useless shit so you can actually park your car in it, or at least somewhere you can set up a charger where you live, an EV could be a pain in the ass.

He already has a 2nd ICE vehicle,  an F-350.
He would be replacing a gas guzzling F150 with the EV.

@AmericanPeople

It's counter intuitive, but I would look at the crash data outcomes for those two vehicles.  I owned a 3/4 ton Ram w/ 5.9 Cummins, and a Prius (close to 15 years ago for both), and my truck had a way higher mortality rate per 100k accidents than the Prius ... Like multiple times more, it wasn't even close.

Let's not use "dis-empowering" words like "gas-guzzling".

I might be an EV fan... but I have also been driving a Hummer for... "oh God almost 12 years"...

I'm...

Bi-gasual

...

Wait

I mean that might work, BRI if gas and diesel... (barely)

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PAN-ALL POWER PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION

lol nice.

This is my new favorite comment in this thread.

At what point did I give any impression that I disagreed with you? Chevy offered a 100kmi (up to 150k actually) warranty on their Volt batteries, which at the 50mi claimed range would be 2000 full charge cycles and you're claiming less than half of that... Ya I'm curious where you're getting your numbers.

Getting all defensive doesn't help your credibility

In order to understand the safety of a vehicle you need to know 2 things.

1.  Accident rate for the vehicle.
2.  Accident death rate and injury rate for the vehicle.

Item 1 is about not getting into a wreck in the first place.  Lots of accidents are avoidable.  Cars can generally stop faster, accelerate faster, have superior road holding ability, have superior traction, have superior high speed dynamic agility, have superior wind handling capabilities and are generally superior in all driving characteristics.  This allows cars to be more capable of avoiding impending accidents and not getting in situations that cause them.

Some accidents cannot be avoided.  Such as being at a stop light when some one piles into the back of you.  This is one place where size can offer some protection to the people being hit.

Item 2. is what happens to the passengers when an accident occurs.  In many cases, trucks are at a disadvantage because the high center of gravity and the inept road holding capabilites can mean worse outcomes because the vehicle flips or is less controllable than a car after an accident.

Muh size can be helpful in some situations.  However, there are plenty of situations where a car wouldn't have gotten in a car wreck because the driver could simply stop, or swerve to avoid an accident where a truck ends up upside down in the ditch.

I would just lease the Tesla keep getting a new one every couple years.
No need to worry about replacing the battery.