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Maybe if you drive a fancy new car, but an older, reliable car can be much cheaper. For example, I drive a Toyota Prius that I've had for 10 years, and I paid $10k for it (approximately, and cash, so no financing). I've driven about 100k miles, spent about $3k on repairs, and have spent about $500/year on insurance. So an estimate for total costs is:
Total cost over 10 years is $27000, or about $2.7k/year.
So that $3k/year low end figure is actually a little high for me, and I ended up rounding most of these things up. I'm guessing a cheap EV could come out even cheaper.
So if you're cheap like me when it comes to cars, owning a horse could be about 10x the cost of a car.