Why couldn’t the car be repaired, $155,000 dollar car with a caved in door is deemed totaled?? Can someone enlighten me???
Why couldn’t the car be repaired, $155,000 dollar car with a caved in door is deemed totaled?? Can someone enlighten me???
EV batteries are easy to ruin in collisions to the side of the car. You can’t add bracing protection because they are already very heavy. The need for a new battery plus other damage totaled the car. They go through tires faster than ICE cars too, due to their weight. They damage vehicles they hit worse also due to their weight.
Forgot to mention that the car may have cost $155k but it wasn’t worth that at the time of the wreck, it was a used car by then. Don’t know how old it was or how many miles it had but it wasn’t worth $155k.
The airbags deploying would have contributed to that.
They are so expensive to replace if they deploy, that once they are used, the car is considered totaled even if there’s almost nothing else wrong with it. Replacing the airbags can come out to more than the value of the car.
In that case, “totaled” doesn’t mean wrecked. It means it cost more to repair it than the vehicle is worth.