Car Owners Shocked by $200 Gas Bills Finally Embrace Used EVs

Eric Flickinger reached his breaking point this spring while filling up his Ram 1500 pickup with diesel that cost $7.39 a gallon. When the pump clicked off, it read exactly $200.

As if that weren’t painful enough, when he hopped back in his truck and started it up, the needle on his gas gauge still didn’t hit full. Turns out, his bank only pre-authorizes a maximum of $200 at a gas pump. Topping off his 33-gallon tank would have required nearly $50 more.

“I was like, what the hell?” said Flickinger, 47, a mechanical engineer who lives outside Seattle. “It ...