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Old 09-20-2021, 06:45 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary View Post
I thought he said that 12,000 was a actually lower than the average, which gives the "keeping your old car" an advantage. The less you drive them more sense it makes to keep your older car longer. If you're going to drive a million miles a years you'd probably be better off with the newest and most fuel efficient vehicle you could find. (Except an EV probably wouldn't be a good vehicle to try to drive a million miles per year in.)
You'd need to be a very busy person to average a million miles/year.
Just for fun I calculated the average (!) speed you'd need to go for that, wich is 114,2 km/h.
Let's say you actualy drive 12h/day on average instead of an impossible 24h/day, you would need to average 228,4 km/h for 12h per day.
Wich would be hard in just about any car short of some Audi with a large diesel engine doing circles in Nardo.
But then again, I'm not sure if the engine would even survive that kind of torture...
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