How much less are you driving? (sell, prices, old, price)

[HJ99]

I didnt measure but seriously be surprised if it was more than 500 miles. Just trips to grocery store every three week or so. At that kind mileage, could well be last car i own. Course depends on govt rules and parts availability and hopefully no idgit driving his cell phone and crunching me with his car while distracted. Treated nicely it could well have another 200k miles left in it, but its already OLD, so??

[recycled]

I've been in Germany the last 7 months, and I don't have a car here, so zero distance driven since then. I walk, ride my bicycle and occasionally ride a city tram (streetcar) or a regional train. I use public transit during non-peak hours to avoid crowds or close contact with other people. Often the trains and trams during the middle of a weekday are almost empty. I have a monthly regional transit pass that lets me use any public transport including trains within a 30 or so mile radius of Chemnitz, a medium-sized city in the eastern part of Germany.

I have a Honda Fit sitting in a storage unit in AZ that I'll put back into service when I return to the USA in September.

[howard555]

We combine local errands, etc. so we can do them on the same trip. The advantage is when we have 3-4 places to go it's easy to create a route or all places in a circle of sorts to save time and fuel. No long trips yet due to covid.

[ccm123]

Since the pandemic hit, we’ve cut driving by about 60%. We usually work from home offices, even pre-pandemic, but since the pandemic hit, we’ve been doing client meetings/visits via Zoom and Google meet, which cut down driving more. Filling up on gas every 2-3 weeks now.

[Fiona8484]

I’d say we cut our driving by 60-70%. One car was purchased new Halloween 2018, it just hit 16,000 miles.

[RadioSilence]

I don't work from home, but even with a commute, I drive about 3,500 miles a year. I can walk to my bank, my pharmacy, and plenty of restaurants in 30 minutes or less.

[davebarnes]

We have gone down from 4200 miles per year to under 2000.
Expect to stay there.
Live in big city.
Longest normal trip is 8.2 miles to kids’ house.

[Stripes17]

I haven't driven my vehicle in about two weeks. I take the wife's van if I bring the dogs with me when I go out and when I go to the grocery store since she parks it in the garage.

My ride just looks like a lonely, pollen covered paperweight in the driveway.

[twinkletwinkle22]

We weren't driving much pre-Covid. One car for 2 retired people, nearby grocery visits changed to deliveries in 2020 but now back to in-person. Doctor/dentist appointments paused for a year now back in schedule, most are under 15 miles away.

Almost always we try to group things so a doctors appt has a grocery shop or a stop at lumber store (woodworking and garden hobby) on way home. We were never big drivers locally as we both have in-home hobbies and interests and not big diner-outs.

I've known people who drive to places as entertainment, an hour away to lunch or shopping.
In earlier days we drove several vacations out west from the east coast for 4 to 7 weeks. Wonderful places, many thousands of miles. Maybe we got it out of our system haha.

[Sarahsez]

Ours is over 50%. I couldn't say how much more than that. My husband has been mainly been at home instead of commuting to work. We took a shorter vacation and have done less road trips because of the reservations needed. I don't shop in stores nearly as much. I too my daughter to the mall last week to get a silver and pearl necklace cleaned. We walked around, but didn't buy anything. This was only my third trip to the mall since covid so we aren't doing a lot of what was previously 'normal' shopping. I still drive back and forth for drop off and pick up at school. I get groceries once or twice a week as I need or forget something.