Living in California is worse. House insurance policies are being cancelled everywhere and it’s hard to find a new insurer. Now you can’t insure your EV.
What a great situation.
You can see the Biden Solution coming right up — government insurance.
No problem. The feds will step in and force insurance companies to cover EVs. That will raise premiums on everyone but they don’t care.
sure! so Jobama is trying to foist unproven teechnology on Americans, just like Obama did with healthcare!
the unproven technology is thre stamina of the EV car bxattery. sure they could make it. sure it moves the car.
the EV battery, then installed, must endure all the environments thrown at it, and this is where they fail.
where are we to warehouse all the old ones?
Easy solution...in an accident with an EV vehicle, the person without the insurance is given a week to prove they have insurance or face execution.
Cause and effect. In the long run if EVs are mandated, so will insurance coverage be mandated. After this point NO ICE cars will be insured. The insurance companies will refuse to insure ICE cars even if they are still being used.
EV batteries should have been designed so individual small modules could be replaced at reasonable cost as they fail, rather than the entire battery all at once.
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
Making personal transportation unaffordable for the masses.
Just another minor infrastructure problem; good thing California will get all this stuff worked out by 2034, just in time for their government-mandated all EV world.
I am sure the Biden Dept of Trans(whatevers) will simply order the insurance companies to cover the EVs. See, problem solved
Oversized electric golf cart fanbois will not be pleased.
I can’t afford these high gas prices. I’m going to have to buy a $60,000 EV!
I am curious if any FREEPERS with EV’s are noticing any insurance rate hikes.
Don’t let the curmudgeons around here discourage you from speaking up.
I posted about this on Facebook months ago. In addition to the problem with damage to the vehicles, I predict that liability rates will be affected because of the high speeds EVs are capable of in just a few seconds. They will take some time for drivers to accommodate to the speeds that a light tap on the accelerator will cause.
Drive through more than an inch of water and the batteries get flooded. That’s a $20,000 to $30,000 repair not covered under warranty. You hit a pothole and two new tires and rims will cost $2,500. This is the same pothole you hit everyday without problem in your previous car.
Deep State likes the sound of that.
EV policy isn’t about saving the planet any more than CoupFlu policy is about protecting public health.
So only those who can self-insure will have cars?
Here come the enviro wackos and the Elites who hate us 24/7 to push the 15 minute cities around the world.
Solution is right there under our noses.
Simply put, vehicle owners don’t have to own the batteries.
Define the batteries the same as the fuel that goes into ICE vehicles. You don’t actually own the fuel, until you want to fill up the tank. Then, you refuel as the need arises.
Make the EV battery makers own the batteries, and the vehicle owners just ‘renters’ or ‘leasers’ of the batteries.
When the batteries go bad or burn up, it’s the responsibility of the batteries companies to handle the problem, thereby making the vehicle owner faultless.
Meanwhile, it’s still the responsibility of the EV ‘owners’ to charge/recharge the batteries when they run dry.
Meanwhile, last week I noticed that, people with EVs don’t chance it when driving long distances. My family (wife, daughter and her 3 kids) just drove from Tampa to Los Angeles, and I only notices ONE EV (a Tesla) on the entire road in Texas (I-10). In Tampa, it seems that every 5th vehicle is a Tesla.
My son who has a Tesla says that Tesla insures his vehicle. I would assume they would continue to do so.
I didn’t pry into the specifics.
Sounds like they realizing even minor battery damage, or possible damage, is essentially a write off.