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That's just bad anecdotal evidence. A 2001 jetta, a full pad and rotor swap can be done for sub $200, a 2020 silverardo the rears alone will cost about $800, a 2010 gmc Acadia will run about $1100 for all four. And this could be from every year to every 6 years based on how many km are put on a given year.
And you really think even at a grand it'll save you anything? Very few people outside of sports cars are replacing brakes that often. It's like buying a 70k new EV to "save money" on gas with some copium that you'll be the 3% to own the car for more than 6 years.
On ice vehicles this is dumb. Hard and expensive to repair for a brake pedal that feels like shit. Absolutely fucks the secondary and third owners looking for a cheap simple car to keep running.
What?? You don't replaced your brakes at 5-6 years? If you drive under the US national average of 12k/year it should be around every 50-60k miles, so 5-6 years. Normally you hear the brake wear indicator squealing sound. Do you wait for the grinding noise to start and a funny smell? Yes, most people ARE in fact replacing at about 5 years. More often the cheaper you go as they wear out faster.
I have a history of keeping my cars for about 10 years. However the EV is only saving me money because I was going to replace the previous anyway, and so either way I'd have similar payments, but with the EV my fuel bill is down. You have to drive vastly more miles than average to save money with an EV - in that case charging will be an issue (either you know all the fast chargers on the way - and also factor in the loss of battery life from regular fast charging, or you should be driving a diesel)
Tell me you live in a flat unpopulate ddesert without telling me you live in a flat unpopulated desert. If you're the 85% of humanity that lives along a coast you are not getting away with replacing your rotors any less than once every couple of years.
Oh I think that this idea is fucking stupid. But to say that you only replace brakes every 5-6 years is even fucking stupider. Hell in a given year I can put on 40-50,000 km ill be doing brakes way sooner than most. Especially if it's a year where I'm towing trailers amd gear to job sites. Fleet veichles, taxis, ubers, delivery veichles, rentals. Those rack up km quick. Compared to a daily driver that goes 20km to work and back... or a summer roadster.