I would not call all those things substantially less. My last car went 250k miles with only one brake pad change. There should be grease fittings in the steering system to lube - though maybe they just expect you to replace parts that wear out early from lack of lube - not unreasonable when they can last 100k miles without.
my phev is saving me a ton of money in gas, but maitenance is tiny either way. However you still need to do it even though as I said most people don't bother and get by.
This is not religion. If you don't belong to my exact sect of christianity you are going to hell. However if you use a differet pan than me or even have a mix there is nothing wrong with it. So get and have a mix and learn what each does well / poorly.
i won't fry an egg on anything other than non-stick. I won't sear a steak in that, or my stainless (my stove takes too long to get my thick stainless to temperature - ymmv with different pans or a better stove), so cast iron it is. Most of my cooking is in cast iron because it is cheap and versital, but I use my stainless often enough that I'm keeping them.
Suburbs are dense enough to support the above transit levels. A few places is the world have it.
rural is not, but that is a minority of people.
Convience is needed. That means it is not more than 5 minutes from when you get to the stop until you are moving. It means you can get to a lot of places in a short time. It doesn't mean cofiee - bring your own, or stop by a coffee shop and get on the next but/train which isn't that long of a wait.
the above would cost a lot of money - but it is much less than people spend on cars.
People are working on it. However itis tricky to get into as most ev's don't need a battery change yet - and by the time they do other parts will be very worn. Is it worth putting $10k into a car that will be worth $5k when you are done?
You have regular maintenance on that car. Make sure you rotate the tires. Brake fluid should be replaced ever couple years. There is often oil in places like a differential that should be changed.
i know most people don't do the above, but you should. Some of that might even be listed as a lifetime fluid - but they define lifetime as seven years or something rediculassly short.
Are you sure they wouldn't use transit? Or is it just all the transit they have ever seen is so bad they wouldn't use it and they have no vision of what could be - but if somehow you built they great transit they would use it?
Back to my point: fix tranit so more people don't think they need to drive. Small cars are still vastly more dangeious than transit.
farmers use a truck to get things to/from town. Farmers are constant running to town to get parts and supplies. Tractors work, but they are slow (and one passenger).
Every system of voting has negatives. First past the post has issues, but it is still massively better than what most people have.