A Newspaper Driver in New Zealand Pushes a 1993 Toyota Corolla Past Two Million Kilometres and It Keeps Going
Posted by UnusualSoup@reddit | cars | View on Reddit | 21 comments
V8-Turbo-Hybrid@reddit
E100 is definitely one of peak Corolla and even Toyota models. Still can find it in all world include America.
ShadyDrunks@reddit
Is that not a Caldina? T190?
aprtur@reddit
None of the photos are the actual vehicle, but they're all E100 Corolla wagons - no Caldina here, although the first gen does look similar.
costafilh0@reddit
Can't wait for all this modern turbo hybrid EV full of tech crap to last about a 1/5.
epicepee@reddit
This guy has probably spent $150-200k on fuel. Driving an EV 2Gm would cost... half of that?
dissss0@reddit
This guy is in New Zealand so his cheapest option would have been a newer hybrid Corolla wagon
Reason for this is both diesel and electric vehicles pay a per km road user charge (RUC) which works out to $76/1000km. Petrol on the other hand pays at the pump per litre so how much you pay per KM depends on how fuel efficient the car is (basically if your petrol car gets better than about 10l/100km you're paying less road tax than a diesel/EV)
Over 2 million KM that RUC would have cost $152,000 on top of the diesel (or electricity if he went that way)
As for an EV I just don't see it being economical for that sort of usage even compared to a diesel - fast charging is relatively expensive here.
didimao0072000@reddit
He was driving 5,000 kilometers a week, do you know how impractical it would be to keep an EV charged for that kind of mileage?
epicepee@reddit
I do, I've done EV road trips! It takes some planning, but I'd sure rather do that than pay for 5,000km of gas every week.
didimao0072000@reddit
Sure you did bud. So you’re aware that fast charging not only takes longer, but at around $0.35–$0.50 per kWh, it can cost as much as or even more than fueling a gas car per mile, especially an efficient one like a Toyota Corolla.
One_Opening_8000@reddit
That’s nuts. Why was he pushing it?
dissss0@reddit
2C diesel - pushing it would probably be quicker
Zephyruos@reddit
Media coverage
Toyota exchanging him with a newer car
DizzySample9636@reddit
thats got to be heavy 😮💨
granolaraisin@reddit
Pffft. 2 million kilometers is only 1.3 million miles.
Don’t be fooled by those inflated metric numbers.
Vhozite@reddit
That’s over 21 million football fields if I did the math right
DestroyerOfTacos@reddit
or roughly 23.5 million bigmacs long.
Fishinabowl11@reddit
9,941,919 furlongs
denkenach@reddit
Pushing a car for 2 million kilometres? Couldn't he have called a tow-truck?
elantra6MT@reddit
Surely not the best financial or practical decision but I support it nonetheless! Very cool
hypermiler2205@reddit
There’s a reason the default response to what kind of car should I buy is “Toyota”
Emotional_Signal7883@reddit
Holy shit! AOL is still around!