Even with gasoline, you'd need to drive a lot with a low-mileage vehicle to get that kind of cash.
I'm more concerned they think maintenance is $1000 a month.
My Chevy Cruze's factory maintenance schedule is an oil change every 7500 miles including a tire rotation. That's once or twice a year. The last expensive maintenance was when I did shocks and struts, but that's every 90,000 miles. In a normal year, I might spend $1000 in maintenance items, maybe $2000 in fuel.
If I had a car that cost me $1000 a month in maintenance, I wouldn't be driving it. That's jet engine and alcohol dragster levels of maintenance.
That's the thing, it's bullshit designed to make the other car look good. I estimate, for the car I drive daily, I spend 250-300 a month on maintenance, fuel, tires, etc. That's everything, amortized to a monthly amount. I drive a lot, and the car gets a lot of things most people would simply ignore, so my number is high. A new vehicle shouldn't cost any more than tires, oil, and gasoline for the first 100,000 miles of it's life.
I have nothing against hybrid vehicles, and think that they should be the way we go forward until we can come up with a better energy storage technology than go-boom-boxes that electric cars currently are. It's just the Prius gave them all a pretentious stigma, and manufacturers are buying whole hog into the electric fallacy.
Manufacturers are doing it for the ESG scores to get bailed out when they fail, again, in the future.
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