I saw one of those things, Fugly.
Have you seen that Volkswagen van ad with robot driving ,they make it look like it’s just like gassing up ,no time at all to charge it ,LOL
EVs are made from the cheapest and lightest materials available to save weight and they are easily damaged, ergo, expensive to repair.
Insurance companies will be adjusting their rates accordingly
Have fun suckers
So, did the insurance end up paying the $42,000 or total the vehicle. I’m thinking the title and content would be very different if they agreed to only $1,700 of a $42,000 bill. Then again, the level of quality and investigation of journalism today is suspect.
Okay, the repair Bill cost was not at all startling. I’ve been reading how they’re totaling these cars for minor accidents. However what’s left out of this story is the conclusion.
Did the other insurance company up their offer? Did the vehicle get totaled? Is his insurance company suing the other driver’s Insurance Company? Did he end up walking away from the car or did he pay to have it fixed?
I don’t know why it’s so difficult for the people who write these stories to actually follow up
The new Tesla truck is starting to roll off the assembly line. Expect expensive repairs there too.
Expect to see car fires for such vehicles in order to total them out for the insurance.
Porsche and Audi are similar costs.
The Aluminum body and frame can make repairs very expensive.
That is why my Porsche is a weekend driver and I am VERY careful.
Stick finger in flame...
Expect painful result...
Stupid guy. Don’t these people do their due diligence before making outrageously expensive purchases?
This is just very poor design with no attention paid to ease of repair or maintenance.
The same was true oF some ICE cars where to replace the spark plugs you almost had to take the engine out.
The other guy's insurance company low-balled you?
Unprecedented!
I’m beginning to understand why 70’s pickup trucks in good condition fetch such high prices. Never mind an $89K Ford F-250, which is simply insane. On the other hand, you’re buying a 20 year old vehicle if you go this route.
I am pondering buying a Ford Ranger (one of the little guys) as my car (22 y/o Toyota) is beginning to show signs of overall failure. The good news is that they are cheap, in the $4k-$8K range. The bad news is that they all have 200+K miles on them. But if they go that long, I have to consider that a good indication.
Another “electric world” story.
A relative of mine in California had solar electric panels installed on his roof, for providing all the elecricity to his house, under a deal where his out of pocket was nil, and the panels and their electric control panel are leased to him for 25 years. The solar outfit gets the majority of the money from selling back to the grid any electricity the panels generate above his house’s consumtpion.
He was happy.
Until the first time extreme heat and nearby wild fires caused his home solar service to shut down. Why? The solar system did not include a full house battery backup system, and when the grid operator has to shut down, his system has to shut down so it will quit sending power to the grid.
Seems to me it should be an easy fix in the control unit, to keep the solar power working and not sending excess power to the grid, but that is one fix the solar provider did not include and claims they do not have for his system. So, with summer heat, great solar panels, and no electricity, he was boiling.
The long of the short of it is MANY “green solutions” have not been fully thought out, or engineered all the way through but are making money on “green” virtue signalling regardless of actual costs to individuals, taxpayers or the economy.
The rubber is all ready meeting the road. When will the breaks be applied?
Well yeah, and that something is that they suck. They cost too much to buy & maintain & are unreliable on top of all else that's wrong with them.
Anyone who continues to buy them deserve to be swindled, because it's not like they are really hiding the flaws with EVs.
The price tag was so high in part because the very minor accident “affected a panel that reaches from the back of the vehicle all the way to the front roof pillars of the truck,” and the repair required the removal of both the ceiling and front windshield.
I’ve got news for everyone,this is not uncommon on some vehicles these days,including domestic “everyday” vehicles. That’s why Total Loss has become so common.
It seems that many vehicles today are simply being engineered to *look* a certain way, with few concessions made to ease or cost of repair. In this case, the fact that it was an EV is not a factor.
So it was totaled.
Isn’t the ‘at fault’ driver the one with the liability for full repair? Why isn’t it his gripe with his insurance agency that it covered so little of his liability? What am I missing about insurance and laws governing traffic collisions?