How much more does a F-150 "Lightning" cost over the same truck with an ICE, equipped the same?
The Lightning offers things a regular F150 cannot so it's hard to compare, plus final pricing isn't out yet. From what I've seen it'll probably about the same as the current model with the Pro Power Onboard option.
What happens to that 1,800 lb. battery cell when it fails in the future?
They will be recycled into new batteries:
Where Electric Car Batteries Go When They Die
How detrimental to the environment is the factory that manufactures all those battery packs? The emissions they emit alone are equivalent to MANY modern ICE trucks I'll bet.
Some estimate say it can create up to 15% more emissions to manufacture an EV but since 75% of all emissions come during the driving phase, total emissions are significantly less over the lifetime of that vehicle.
With a 180 kWh battery pack that will cost $25ish bucks every time you charge it, and can realistically only take you <250 miles, how will you ever save money over the current modern ICE trucks that are seeing $0.10 to $0.12 per mile on 87 octane pump gas or diesel?
It depends on how much you pay for electricity, how much you pay for gas, and the kind of mileage you get, but the cost to recharge an EV is far less than the cost to fuel your ICE:
https://www.kbb.com/car-news/how-much-does-it-cost-to-charge-an-ev/. That doesn't even include the additional cost of maintenance that ICE requires.
How much does it cost to have a licensed electrician convert one of your garage outlets to 240V power so that you don't have to spend two full days charging this truck?
Lots of variable here too but for an L2 charger install you're looking at around $1,000 to 2,000:
How to Install an Electric Car Charging Station. I'm sure you can find scenarios where it's a lot more or a lot less.
How much of that <250 mile range are you going to lose when you hook a trailer to this truck?
Depends on how much you're towing, but I've read that the F150 Lightning towing 10,000 pounds will see range cut in half. That'll get you 150 miles for the bigger pack which is required for max towing (regular non-towing range is 300 miles). Obviously smaller loads will create less of a decrease in range.
What happens when you decide to go on a long trip and there are only a handful of places to stop and charge the truck overnight?
Charging stations are almost everywhere. Here's a map from chargehub.com showing public charging locations around the Stillwater Oklahoma area. Some are even free! But I'm sure if you look out west you can probably find areas where they're far more scarce. Blues are L2 and yellows are L3 (DCFC) which can charge most batteries to 80% in about 30 minutes.
How are we going to generate enough electricity to constantly charge hundreds of millions of these huge battery packs across the nation daily?
Good question. It's estimated to take much more generation and if so I'm sure we'll solve that like we solved all the other problems to this point. My personal theory is that point of use generation will ultimately more than make up the difference but that's just me.
I think that EVs are a political gimmick to try and reel people in to believing that the government is doing something great for them, but those people aren't taking the time to give this any rational thought.
I think lots of smart people have given this tremendous amounts of thought. Personally I never viewed it as the government giving me anything, although they do subsidize it just like they do for oil and gas as well as farming and other things. To many (most?) people, EVs are simply a superior product. That's how I see it anyway, and virtually all the people I know who own one would say the same.
