Just wondering how many kms are put on a car per year
Number of Kilometres Driven Yearly
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When do you find the time to comment here if you are driving so much?
90% of that is at 100kmh so it's not as much time as you would expect.
….and the other 10% is on the open road.
Muzeeb lives how life 100km at a time.
50k is just under 1000 a week. used to do more than that just driving to and from work, 1 hour morning and night.. Parents averaged 100k a year in the 80s AND 90s
cue CowFrogHorse to tell people they're a slave to driving/commuting/travelling
How long is a piece of string
double the length from the middle to the end
circumference / pi
worldwide probably more than 30k km are driven cumulatively
personally i am doing almost 20k km on the dot (which is conveniently 10k/6 months, exactly the car service schedule)
Average in Australia is 15K per year.
Average and median would be very different.
ABS in 2020 reported only 12,100km per year, not 15,000 - https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-trans…
Once you break that down to passenger vehicles they're only doing 11,100 km per year on average.
Where'd you get 15,000 from?
Where are people going to accumulate 30000+ km a year? Curious question
Real estate agents.
Living far away from work and family.
When buying a new bbq, you must visit all franchise stores.
And so on for all purchases so kms rack up quite easily
Yep this one, remember that guy spread Covid everywhere at the beginning.
Uber?
Commute of 70km/1hr each way
Sales reps, delivery drivers, construction workers (a lot of driving to random sites all over the place and between sites), people who live remotely.
My commute is an 80km round trip, if I was forced back into the office 5 days a week I'd probably quit my job, but if I didn't I could see doing 30k km. Parents are a 300km round trip away and I love a good road trip.
Bought a new car for my wife and picked up 2nd Dec 2022.
So far has 20k on itAlot of motorway driving from SW Sydney
I worked in road construction. Was doing 60k per year in a company car plus some kms in personal car.
You build roads by driving over it ?
You drive over roads to get to the roads you are building. Then you drive on the roads you build while you build them and after you build them.
Many shifts of a 20k commute plus 100km+ to the job site.
the Uber/Didi drive I had on monday had done ~78000kms in the last 12 months (from when he bought the car brand new)
Regional and Rural Australia, truck drivers
Driving to get those OzBargains??? hahahaha
In all seriousness though, living in a regional area where it is a 200km round trip to Melbourne or it is 60kms round trip just to go to the in-laws. You do that twice a week and it quickly adds up.
It is all freeway driving so it is an easy drive, just a fair few km. If you are doing 30,000kms a year in the city, that is a lot of driving……
regional / rural sales rep
I did 25k just driving for fun (and to the shops), I WFH. Not that hard.
I did 25k just driving for fun (and to the shops), I WFH. Not that hard.
Wow! 25,000km? How remote are you? Surely the milk would have gone off by the time you got home.
Not remote at all haha, most of that is for leisure, I love driving my car and like to get out at the weekend since I WFH
There was a time pre-covid when I drove to work everyday where my commute was 60km one way = 120km both ways x 250 working days = 30,000km in a year + weekend trips etc easily took me over 30k.
But despite my commute being 60km, most of it was on a highway driving against traffic (I was driving from the city to a regional town) , so took me around 45mins from door to door, which is less than the commuting time of some people I know who live only 20km from the CBD and taking public transport. So you don't have to be driving a taxi or do a job that involves driving the whole day to rack up 30k kms.
Depends on whether driving at the speed limit in the right hand lane.
"But the truck drivers were being mean to me!"
WFH. 10k.
First 12 months of my car - 30,000kms (was doing 1 day a week in the office, 200km round trip)
First 12 months of my wife's car - 17,000kmsI moved job, now doing WFH completely probably going to do 20,000kms a year.
I live in a regional area, so nothing is necessarily a 10kms drive for a major shopping centre.
30,000+, 90% of that is circle work in Bunnings car parks on a Sunday night #alwaysbegrinding
Last job, over 30k;
Current job, less than 5k.Nice try Budget Direct
Just wondering how many kms are put on a car per year
Which car?
Not directly related but just to throw some more numbers out for vehicle kilometres per year…
Some solo truck drivers will pump out 250,000kms a year and some two up drivers (2 driver teams) will push 3/400,000km per year 🤷🏽♂️
I would think most of the kms are out under a car.
Did you know your car keys travel further than your car?
not if you just stash them above the sunvisor like in the movies.
Then they’ll travel the same distance as the car plus the distance to sun visor and back every time you put them there.
what if you lose them and have to get a new set?
10 years 20k , so 2000km per year.
Hardly any point having a car.
I can't do without one. Not a fan of ride hailing / taxi / rent a car every weekend.
Purchased a new workmate in Feb this year, so far I have driven it 1050ks. I mostly use it for work around the farm and the occasional dump trip or to pick up stuff.
One thousand? Or is that a typo and should be 10 thousand?
New car in late April. Has 7k km on it.
No typo 1050ks, I also have a 2019 Pajero sport that I use for most of my on road driving. Most of the time I have the back of the workmate filled up with loose crap [tools and shit] that I don't feel like taking out to just put back in. It's just easier and more comfortable to take the Pajero.
I'm doing about 5,000km since the pandemic, the 2 years before that I was doing even less because I was traveling overseas for work and kinda like a backpacker.
And the treats prior I was living a normal 9-5 office job doing about 15,000km.
Times have changed for the better IMO
I worked this out for my car recently as my insurance price varied a fair bit when I changed the average yearly travel in increments of 1000km. I am averaging about 12 000km in my personal car but I should sit down and work out how much mileage I put on hire cars for work travel in a year.
How on earth do you do less than 10,000 klms a year? When you look at most secondhand cars its rare to see 10,000 klms per year of ownership.
It’s not that hard if you don’t commute in your car. Easier if you also don’t go on holidays at any distance.
If you live and work within inner city / CBD , walking to your workplace , you only use the car in the weekend.
I do about 8k a year now - work from home.
Only used to go Gym on weekdays. Weekend to go shops, friends house, dinner, weekend getaway or weekend drive if I'm bored.Easy if you're a recluse.
Work during the day and live near public transport.
I worked night shift work in the CBD for many years (usually 8pm-4am) and didn't live anywhere near a train line. Was driving about 20-25K per year.
Now I work a 9-5 and have a train station 1km away from my house. I drive once or twice a week and do ~6000KM a year.
When you look at most secondhand cars its rare to see 10,000 klms per year of ownership
This may be a case of survivorship bias. Can be explained in the following ways:
• The cars which do have low KM/y are sold rather quickly because they are highly desired. This reduces how often you may have a chance to see them on car sale sites. You only see the cars which are lower quality, have higher KM/y, and take longer to sell.• The people who drive less KM/y may have less incentive to sell their cars (their cars would wear down at a slower rate than those who drive a lot), and they may not have as much desire to upgrade to another car since they wouldn't be using it much anyway.
I rely on public transport into CBD not my car for office days.
Grandson purchased a car few months ago. 2017 model, 23,000k, one lady owner from Lismore. That's less than 4,000k per year.
Yes
60,000 a year as a sales rep in Tasmania.
Basically 2 1/2 times around the state each week
Almost 20 year old corolla (but almost 2 years sitting in a garage), so 18 years on the road
About 315k km on the clock
So 17.5k/ yearAnd that average would be decreasing each year
Was a courier for a few years and that got 100k each year
1,500km per year (avg for the last 5 years). Just clicked 70kkms on a 13yo car (2010). Purchased 2013.
5 to 8000km
~8k kms
And that's me trying. :)
Rookie numbers
Edit: my suggestion was 50k + but whatever