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To: Tell It Right

great breakdown of ev costs but, you missed a. ug expense. tires. I get 40-50k out of a set of tires for my ice vehicle. at $900 for a new set of tires that adds. another 2.5 cents per mile. Ev’s run what? 10-15k between sets of tires? you need to add another 10 cents per mile to your ev costs.


33 posted on 04/29/2024 3:52:48 PM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: Ikeon

My EV weighs 10% more than the ICE car it replaced, and 5% less than our ICE pickup. Thus I assumed a 10% increase in tire wear. I also assumed that would be offset by savings on brake pad wear (since most braking in the EV is done by regen braking). 22 months and 46K miles later these assumptions seem to be correct. I had to replace my original set of tires at 27K miles. But the replacements seem to be lasting a lot longer (perhaps the factory tires were crap).


34 posted on 04/29/2024 4:00:41 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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