Lulz: "May be causing demand-destruction"#Trump#Economy#IranWar

Reply to Lulz: "May be causing demand-destruction"#Trump#Economy#IranWar on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:52:50 GMT

madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:52:50 GMT

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.

Reply to Lulz: "May be causing demand-destruction"#Trump#Economy#IranWar on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:45:51 GMT

ferricoxide@blahaj.zone — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:45:51 GMT

@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).

Reply to Lulz: "May be causing demand-destruction"#Trump#Economy#IranWar on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:10:57 GMT

ferricoxide@blahaj.zone — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:10:57 GMT

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).