For Rick Kimminau, a lifelong Kansan and Ford F-150 Lightning owner, a reckoning came not at a Supercharger or on the shoulder of I-35, but at home in Wichita, staring down a spreadsheet after a round trip to Kansas City. It wasn’t about proving a point. It was about ripping the Band-Aid off and asking: Am I really saving money with this truck?
He went to a Facebook group to talk about it.
“I frequently drive my 2023 Lightning XLT SR from Wichita, KS, to the Kansas City area (Overland Park, KS) to visit family and friends. After I made the trip this week, I put together this rough comparison of what the trip costs in the Lightning vs. a gas F-150. Hopefully, this helps some of the folks on here who are on the fence about whether to purchase an EV…