U.S. agency survey: Tesla has the lowest post-maintenance cost, and the 10-year maintenance cost is $129 less than Toyota
Toyota’s 10-year maintenance costs account for only 13.5% of its vehicle value, making it the lowest maintenance cost car brand among non-luxury brands.
Recently, The Clunker Junker released a list of vehicle maintenance costs.
Among them, Tesla won the luxury brand championship with 7.09% of the original purchase price, while Toyota has the lowest maintenance cost among non-luxury brands.
The Clunker Junker is a platform focusing on American scrapped car trading services, and has published a number of car survey reports in the United States.
The vehicle maintenance cost list released this time takes 10 years as a period, and uses the percentage of the maintenance cost to the original purchase price as the basis to estimate the depreciation of the vehicle value.
A consumer survey by Statista, a German data analysis platform, found that for Americans, the priorities for buying a car are fuel efficiency, safety and cost, and it seems that the reliability of the car is not so important.
People ignore the importance of reliability – not only when it comes to failures in the use of cars, but more importantly, in the long run, the low after-sales costs brought about by reliability can make cars more valuable.
The American Automobile Association (AAA) estimates that each car owner pays $800 a year for maintenance alone.
In today’s world where buying and maintaining a car has become increasingly expensive, maintenance costs should also be taken into consideration.
Luxury brands
According to The Clunker Junker’s survey of the most popular luxury and generic brands in the U.S. over the past 10 years, non-luxury Toyotas are the cheapest to maintain in the long run, at just 13.5% of their average value over a 10-year period.
Japanese brand Mitsubishi is the most expensive to maintain, with maintenance costs of up to 29.5% of the car’s value.
Among luxury brands, Tesla has the lowest maintenance cost, with a 10-year maintenance cost of only 7.1% of the car’s value.
Lexus came in second with 12.28%.
In comparison, in the BBA camp, Mercedes-Benz ranks fourth with 18.6%, Audi ranks seventh with 19.45%, and BMW has the most expensive maintenance costs, up to 25.3% of its value.
Non-luxury brands
Specific to vehicle models, Toyota’s Land Cruiser has the lowest maintenance costs among non-luxury brands, with 10-year maintenance costs equivalent to only 7.3 percent of its original value.
Among luxury brands, Tesla’s Model S costs just 4.6% of its value to maintain over a decade.
Notably, Tesla also has the lowest maintenance costs of any brand.
The data shows that Tesla’s 10-year maintenance cost is $5,867, with an average vehicle price of $82,800, while Toyota’s is $5,996, with an average vehicle price of $44,700.
For a long time, Japanese brands have given people the impression of being “affordable” due to their lower maintenance costs.
Lexus, Mazda and Toyota are the most reliable brands in the United States, according to Consumer Reports’ test data on more than 300,000 vehicles.
In 2022, Toyota surpassed GM to become the best-selling car brand in the United States.
In terms of maintenance costs, Toyota also has an advantage over GM.
Tesla’s low maintenance costs can be attributed to the special nature of electric vehicles.
Compared with traditional fuel vehicles, electric vehicles do not have large mechanical parts such as engines and gearboxes.
The maintenance items are mainly concentrated on air conditioning maintenance, tire pressure monitoring, battery maintenance, etc., so the maintenance cost is relatively low.
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