My wife and I are in our early 80’s, and we got refunds back on insurance for our two vehicles for our low mileage due to the so called pandemic and lack of driving.
Last year the battery on my wife’s Lexus died from lack of use, and we got a new one under warranty.
The battery on my Ridgeline just died & had to be replaced. It died past warranty. The AAA guy said we needed to drive each vehicle about an hour at least once a week.
We could get by with one vehicle and in a few years sell the last one and use UBER and cabs.
However, our parents, both sets gone now, said to never give up your cars. As that was giving up your freedom.
Giving up our vehicles is all about restricting/losing our freedom to travel and live a free life to go where we want to and when we want to. Sometimes just to take a pleasure drive with no real need to drive.
Our siblings, cousins and friends in about our same age group, say that they will never sell nor give up their cars/vehicles. There are a few who should give up driving.
your auto batteries are dying from parasitic draw from all the onboard electronics, not from lack of use per se ... modern autos should be connected to trickle chargers when not in driven at least once a week ... that’ll keep your batteries viable for years ... trickle chargers will also keep the small batteries in lawn tractors, snow machines, four wheelers and such viable for many years as well ...