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That equates to $60 per month maintenance if the car had been driven 10K miles per year ($29K / 400K miles = $.0725 per mile) which seems extremely good.

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7 cents a mile is in line with a Toyota Camry or Prius. Which are not high performance luxo cars. I think for other cars of the Tesla X's class (cough BMW cough) the maintenance costs are closer to 20 cents a mile.

So very good indeed.

My detailed spreadsheets show a Honda Civic 6 cents a mile to maintain the first six years. And I used dealers due to my two left thumbs. Many owners cut this in half by doing routine stuff themselves.

I think I have spent $1000-1500 on maintenance over the last 5 years or so with ~60k miles, and that's with taking my car to a private shop for a recall fix ($300-400, wife had the car out of town), which accounts for a quarter to half of that amount. I drive a Prius with oil changes every 5000 miles, which amounts to ~$30/change ($5-10/air filter, ~$5/oil filter, ~$20 for synthetic oil), or ~$400. The rest is small, periodic maintenance (starter battery, lights, fluids, etc) and tires (replaced twice).

So I'm looking at ~$0.02-0.03/mile maintenance costs doing most of the work myself, about half or more of which shouldn't be necessary with an EV. I probably could have been under $0.02 if I was more proactive in checking the recall notice.

> That equates to $60 per month maintenance

You mean $600/month? $29,000/48 = $604.16. And that doesn't include Tesla's free (outside of warranty) battery replacement.

Your number assumes the car is driven 100,000 miles a year, which would get it to 400,000 miles in 48 months (4 years).

The original comment assumed 10,000 miles a year, which is on the light end.

The car is only 4 years old, it couldn't have been driven longer than it has existed.

I think OP adjusted to more regular annual mileage (10k miles/year), and adjusted the costs with it.

Additionally, with lighter milage, many of the repairs would likely have not been necessary.

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