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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. A family member of mine is a regional sales manager and usually puts more than 100k miles on his car each year. A million miles in 8 years wouldn't be impossible for him, but so far no car has lasted that long.



That's about ~273 miles per day on average. If we take out weekends, then we get an average of ~383 miles.

For someone to do that every day for 8 years and still do sales work would be some kind of endurance feat.


Even more, I think!

Days in a year: ~365 x 8 = 2,920; 1,000,000 / 2,920 = 342.5 miles per day

W/o weekends: ~260 x 8 = 2,080; 1,000,000 / 2,080 = 480.8 miles per day

That's more than 5 hours of driving, every. single. day. Unlikely.


So 2080 is number of hours per working year (assuming zero annual leave and public holidays)

I think you should have just calculated 100000/260 to get miles per day, not 10^6/2080.

Your 480.8 miles per day should be 48.1 miles per hour.

Still doesn't change the huge amount of driving needed to do 100k miles in a year!


How about charging it? Considering the lack of network and somewhat long charge time, the theoretical maximum is probably very well defined.


Well if you assume one charge per day (say in your garage over night), you get 265 miles/day * (365 days * 8 years + 2 leap days) = 774,330 miles total.




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