alt Hacker News35,000 mi of driving is not anywhere near out of the question if you're a daily commuter who takes road trips once in a while. If you're driving a truck or a non-hybrid, it's also a lot less mileage. It sounds like this is actually close to what you would be expected to use.
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caseysoftware • last Saturday at 10:46 PM
> 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-ro...
vel0city • last Saturday at 9:29 PM
It's far away from the average of around 12,000. Few cars drive 35,000mi.
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Just because a small percentage of drivers drive that much each year doesn’t make it a reasonable number for the general case.
It sounds like this is actually close to what you would be expected to use.
Not even close to what the average driver drives.