21 May

That's over 320,000km, for the metric nations. And is also true. Petrol and diesel cars have always had a deliberately designed obsolescence, which makes people go out and buy new ones regularly. Find me another consumer product whose price has gone *up* over the years. They go down because of economies of scale. But not cars, the car companies are on a good wicket. Until now. EV prices go down as economies of scale kick in, which drives down the prices of cars, new and secondhand. You can drive them for a decade or more with next to no maintenance, which kills the business model of ICE carmakers, who rely upon you coughing up big dollars every 3-5 years on new models, and paying people to service them regularly.