15,000 electric cars lost to Hurricane Sandy

SmartPlanet ^ | 11/7/2012 | Kirsten Korosec

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Hurricane Sandy damaged at least 15,000 new cars parked at a New Jersey port, including 320 Karmas, the luxury plug-in hybrid electric vehicle by Fisker Automotive. The loss might not sound like much. Nissan, for example, estimates more than 6,000 of its cars and light trucks are will have to be scrapped. And the superstorm may have damaged as many as 200,000 vehicles, including used autos and those of individual owners, National Automobile Dealers Association Senior Analyst Larry Dixon told Bloomberg

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There is always the danger that some of these salt water soaked autos will end up on the used car market. For a buyer of a used car research into its origins would be in order.

[SandRat]

What a shocking loss. < / pun-bad joke

[Baynative]

"320 Karmas, the luxury plug-in hybrid electric vehicle by Fisker Automotive."

What a break for them. Now they get full price from the insurance - something they wouldn't have achieved at the dealer.

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Find source at: www.smartplanet.com/blog/...loses-32m...cars...sandy/4900

[ari-freedom]

Cash for clunkers? They were clunkers from the start.

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What a break! That’s why the car is called Karma, I guess.

[ari-freedom]

Karma’s a b-—

[Tunehead54]

Better link:

15,000 electric cars lost to Hurricane Sandy

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Yard ornaments now.

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Thanks! I don’t post so much or well.

[SandRat]

Future fish habitats perhaps.

[Tennessee Nana]

See ??? See ???

The rich 1% again...

all that was lost in Katrina was some old school buses...

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Due to environmental regs. it will cost as much to sink them as refurbish them for reuse, which can’t be done either, I would think.

[Dave Mellon]

Got me! LOL :-)

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Feel rich...buy a Karma sub...the electric luxury boat.
Til then they’ll be used as homeless shelters, the leather may be soggy but it is top quality.

[cableguymn]

I’ve owned flood cars in the past. Bought them knowing the history and paid accordingly.

one lasted 5 years. The other 5 months. The 5 month one still parted out nicely and paid for its self once parted and scrapped.

I currently own a flood boat. Runs like a top. Sank in the guys driveway last summer when Duluth MN flooded.

I still laugh. The title for the trailer is stamped “PRIOR SALVAGE-FLOOD”

Hell, it gets flooded every time I go fishing. Right up to the hitch.

If your not mechanically inclined RUN FOREST RUN! from flood cars.

[SERKIT]

Once they catch fire, they could keep a lot of people warm.

[mosesdapoet]

Reminds me of a joke the punch line is.... “Tell me Abe how do you make a flood”

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I watched cold people wander around amid heaps of scrap wood and wondered why they didn’t build fires. Let the Karmas burn on their own, but folks could keep warm with a scrap fire. Done it myself more than once.

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Ya pays yer money ya takes yer chances. Couple hundred thousand cars to head for the cruncher. But I’ll guess they won’t be parted out.