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It doesn't sound that reliable if you've had to replace that much already with just 100k miles. I have two vehicles over 100k, one closing in on 200k soon, and my maintenance on both is less than 5k. Of course, the part no one talks about: 1. How will you do a family vacation beyond the EV range? 2. Who pays to replace the ~$15k battery and when?
I think it’s worth noting that mileage doesn’t necessarily correspond to maintenance expenses. It’s only a rough rule of thumb. People like to talk about mileage because it’s an easy-to-measure stand in for the age of a car based on its usage. But over time they forget that like in humans, there’s a lot of variation at the same age. There’s other factors like road conditions, cost of parts, cost of labor in different…
Scotty Killer on YouTube said something slightly different. He said highway miles are almost one tenth of city miles. Or in other words, stop and go traffic is ten times as bad as constant driving without traffic. At least for the engine and the transmission I guess.