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This is so dumb. Not in part, but primarily / solely.

EV battery is degrading over time - a replacement costs ... between 5000-20.000$ [1]. I am not sure that we have objective data on the scale of this issue.

[1] https://www.cars.com/articles/how-much-do-electric-car-batte...

A more apples-to-apples comparison would be the % of cars manufactured in a given year that are still on the road.

If people are replacing internal combustion vehicles with EVs then that will push the average age of ICEs up and the average age of EVs down for reasons that have to do with arithmetic, not product reliability.