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It's far away from the average of around 12,000. Few cars drive 35,000mi.

• pclmulqdq 10mo ago
  The average driver also doesn't get 35 mpg driving regularly. The average driver probably gets around 20 mpg, and that would make this distance about 15000 mi.
  • vel0city 10mo ago
    The kind of people choosing an EV wouldn't get a 20mpg car, it's an unfair comparison.
    • pclmulqdq 10mo ago
      They also chose a car that's extremely heavy (by virtue of the battery), so they create more road wear per mile than the average American car. The point is that tax rate seems fair.
      • vel0city 10mo ago
        The ICE I would have picked otherwise is only 100kg lighter and gets 40mpg.
        • turkeyboi 10mo ago
          And you’d be paying gas tax
          • vel0city 10mo ago
            Far less than what I'm paying with the EV, which is my point!
• caseysoftware 10mo ago
  > With that information, the British newspaper calculated that BEVs [battery electric vehicles] could expose roads to 2.24 times more damage than gas cars. If that's true, then 12-15k miles in an EV would be equivalent to 27-33k miles in a gas car.. so "taxes equivalent to 35k miles" isn't far off. Ref: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bevs-could-also-damage-roads-way-more-than-ice-cars-due-to-weight-217255.html https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bevs-could-also-damage-ro...
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