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Tesla Owners Brace For Soaring Insurance Costs And Even Bans As EV Attacks Escalate
Carscoops ^ | 3/18/25 | Chris Chilton

Posted on 03/21/2025 3:27:13 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Tesla owners across America are living in fear of having their EVs trashed by activists lashing out at CEO Elon Musk’s controversial DOGE efficiency drive that has cost thousands of federal jobs. But even drivers whose Teslas aren’t targeted by vandals could find themselves with a nasty shock further down the line.

Insurers are warning that the attacks could raise premiums for all Tesla drivers and potentially even lead to cars like the Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck being blacklisted by insurance companies

(Excerpt) Read more at carscoops.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: democratterrorism; democratterrorsits; insurance; tesla
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Well, if I owned a Tesla, I would send the bill to the DNC, they caused this hysteria.
1 posted on 03/21/2025 3:27:13 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Elon will probably create an insurance company in an afternoon for his car owners.


2 posted on 03/21/2025 3:28:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: DesertRhino

Just bought one.


3 posted on 03/21/2025 3:29:22 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: DallasBiff

I’m surprised nobody has parked a Tesla on a parking lot somewhere say about 80 or 100 yards from some grassy knoll. You know, the way some people put a deer lick or feed corn out in front of a stand.


4 posted on 03/21/2025 3:30:35 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Which model?


5 posted on 03/21/2025 3:30:51 PM PDT by Fai Mao (All Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: DallasBiff
Another example of the left turning on its own.

Am I wrong or are current Tesla owners predominantly fellow libs?

6 posted on 03/21/2025 3:30:51 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: DesertRhino

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/auto-motor/elon-musks-latest-insurance-move-could-be-the-start-of-something-big-524221.aspx


7 posted on 03/21/2025 3:31:55 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Nice lol


8 posted on 03/21/2025 3:37:25 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

That’s awesome


9 posted on 03/21/2025 3:37:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: DallasBiff; All

Notice the anti-Tesla bias?

“..Elon Musk’s controversial DOGE efficiency drive that has cost thousands of federal jobs.”

The statement above could just as easily have been:


..Elon Musk’s highly popular DOGE efficiency drive that is saving taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.

It is obvious Carscoops and Chris Chilton are anti-Tesla.


10 posted on 03/21/2025 3:41:41 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Lizavetta
Am I wrong or are current Tesla owners predominantly fellow libs?

Seems like that doesn't it? Virtue signaling gone wrong X^2.

11 posted on 03/21/2025 3:43:45 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: DesertRhino

Trump needs to purchase 10,000 Teslas to help the government reduce its carbon output.

Yes, we know where the electricity comes from ,but the left doesn’t

These Teslas need to be unmarked with regular plates.

If vandalized it becomes a federal crime.


12 posted on 03/21/2025 3:47:02 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
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To: DesertRhino

Will we be seeing pink mist from any of these Teslaterrorists?


13 posted on 03/21/2025 3:47:08 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: DesertRhino

I’ve wondered the same. And with that website doxxing Tesla owners and vehicles, that could make just about any Tesla owner’s home or vehicle a dangerous honeypot for the ne’er-do-wells.


14 posted on 03/21/2025 3:48:39 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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To: DesertRhino
Tesla already offers its own insurance in 12 states, 8 of them blue states including California and Illinois,
Red states will have to step up their approval process.
15 posted on 03/21/2025 3:53:17 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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"... if these types of losses continue, carriers could refuse to offer coverage for Tesla vehicles altogether,” Bankrate’s insurance expert, Shannon Martin, suggested to Newsweek’s reporters.

All major auto insurers should come together and make a joint announcement: "We, America's largest auto insurance companies, have decided to no longer offer insurance coverage for Tesla vehicles. We have reached this decision given that the deranged Dumb Democrats (fully endorsed by the Democrat Party and all Democrat politicians who also fully endorsed the extremely violent Black Lives Matter/Antifa wild thug mob riot organization during the 2020 election year) are rapidly increasing their Democrat domestic terrorism throughout the United States. We insurance companies fear that if we don't drop insurance coverage for Tesla vehicles, then all those deranged Dumb Democrat kamaLa-voters will also begin committing the same violent domestic terrorism against all the auto insurance companies, too, and so we are extremely fearful for our own safety. We apologize if this causes inconvenience to anyone affected by this notice.

Sincerely,
Fearful American Major Auto Insurers"

16 posted on 03/21/2025 3:53:43 PM PDT by gw-ington (President Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, DOGE. For the Win.)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s terrorisim plain and simple and some dumb ass or asses are gonna wind up doing a hard five.


17 posted on 03/21/2025 3:56:32 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: pfflier

This is similar to the left during World War II.

They loved Stalin and hated Hitler.

Until...Stalin and Hitler signed a treaty.

Then they loved Stalin and loved Hitler.

Until...Hitler invaded Russia.

Then they loved Stalin and hated Hitler again.

I call it leftist whiplash.


18 posted on 03/21/2025 3:56:35 PM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Just bought one.

Well put on your MAGA hat and get out there…


19 posted on 03/21/2025 3:57:41 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: Lizavetta

Somewhere on X I saw where these attacks are very high in the far left West Coast.

You know the SAME people who have been screaming about reducing fossil fuels are now destroying Teslas which don’t use them (directly).


20 posted on 03/21/2025 4:00:06 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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