[JimmyAustin]

TLDR: If he buys a car a year, and drives the same number of miles as the average American, his total emissions are probably equal to someone who drives 28k miles a year.

Carbon emissions for a Model 3 vs a Toyota Corolla even out after 13'500 miles according to Argonne National Laboratory [1], which is slightly less than the average an American drives per year (14'263 miles [2]). Assuming that he drives as much as the average driver, his cars generate as much Co2 as a Model 3 (definitely not true for the Cybertruck, but he probably has low-build-emission ICE cars in the other 8 to lower the average), and he buys a car a year, he has roughly the equivalent emissions of someone who drives twice the average number of miles each year. For reference, a long haul driver (of which there are 300k-500k in the US [3]) drives 100-110k miles [4] a year (7-8x the average).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...

[2] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-dri....

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/25/999784202/is-t....

[4] https://www.caltrux.org/driver-faqs/#:~:text=Begin%20a%20Car....

[maxerickson]

Truck drivers are doing a commercial activity where it is reasonable to largely attribute the emissions to the customer.

[linotype]

Yes, those Americans driving on average 77 miles a day. Every day.