Lulz: "May be causing demand-destruction"#Trump#Economy#IranWar
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So, because we acquires our #EV through a low-mileage lease, I had been planning to keep the miles well under the limit by driving my (nearly 25yo) car more-frequently. Like, say, to run twenty weekends' worth of grocery-errands (at forty-ish miles per Saturday, that'd relieve +800mi worth of mileage from the leased vehicle). Because gas for my car went from $3.23 to $4.69 (according to today's #GasBuddy report), I opted to cut things a little finer. Instead, I look at the car's mileage on any given day, then use https://days.to to calculate the number of days since we'd picked the car up from the dealership and divide the number on the odometer by it. As long as we average under 20.5mi/day, we're golden.
I had been targeting about 15mi/day for the first year, "just to give us some 'slack'." And, in actuality, we'd been running under 14/dy before our last visit to my mom's (130mi each way). Still under 16mi/day, right now. But probably less under than I'd initially expected due to having opted to use the EV a bit more than the pre gas-price surge had me initially planning.
Regardless, we're still good. We have more options than a lot of people do (especially since I'm work-from-home). -
Ooooh - I'm gonna be so naughty here....
Did you try calculating how much you could afford to spend extra on over-driven miles (not sure if that is a word, it's a direct translation from Danish), using the EV instead of adding drops of almost liquid gold to your old car? He asks casually, not wanting to confuse matters. At all. Hehehe....
@madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net
In general, unless you go ridiculously over mileage, you're not losing by going over.
The other factor that has me wanting to use my car at least twice a month is preventing things like wheels and gaskets from dry rotting and things like brakes from rust-freezing.
Overall, if we drove only the EV, we'd only go over mileage by a 13-20% (based on the last five years' driving patterns). -
@madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net
In general, unless you go ridiculously over mileage, you're not losing by going over.
The other factor that has me wanting to use my car at least twice a month is preventing things like wheels and gaskets from dry rotting and things like brakes from rust-freezing.
Overall, if we drove only the EV, we'd only go over mileage by a 13-20% (based on the last five years' driving patterns).Really? - OK, that's pretty different here. Let's say we lease with 15000 km per year and return the car after 3 years.
Every single kilometer more than 45000 km will have to be paid by something like 1 DKK (depending on the terms of your lease) with no exceptions.
I get the wish to keep the old car in working order, and that is definitely a thing - it only holds value if it will start and run properly, and a couple of longer runs every month will do exactly that.
