I took a quick look yesterday and it's
- 11 miles one way to the grocery store
- 20 miles one way to Walmart, Home Depot etc in the small city
- 40 miles one way to the larger city that has more stores
- 54 miles one way to work
108 miles round trip in winter? Possibly on snow tires? How much EV range do you think I need? I've been trying to figure that one out. Most people seem to think they need more than 500 miles range but pre-pandemic it was rare for me to drive more than 200 miles on any given day (although very often I did drive 200 miles round trip once a week to someplace that did not have chargers).
As for cheap Camry's I haven't looked in a while but I bought one four years ago for $1,500. I put about $1,500 into it in the first year; I bought knowing I would spend $1k on deferred items (real close--it was $1,200) and the rest was upgrades (trailer hitch and stereo). I've driven about 84k since then, looks like $14k TCO (purchase, fuel, repairs, insurance, registration). Nothing wrong with the car at the moment, only has 228k on the clock.
Reliability hasn't been great--it went 2 or 3 years, then needed front pads/rotors/calipers, swaybar links, radiator and alternator in the span of a month, give or take. Recently I had to toss LCA's at it. Not quite as reliable as my wife's Camry, which in 220k has only needed a set of brakes. Ok, both cars need tires every 40k, can't forget that. But her Camry was $20k to purchase, then toss in fuel--I don't have the TCO number but I'd probably be very sad at the price tag...
Not sure what I'd replace either with, so I try to pay attention to these threads. Supposedly EV's are cheaper to run than ICE's, so I'm trying to pay attention.