From: ScottW48@hotmail.com   
      
   "Sticker shock" has taken on a whole new meaning when new electric vehicle   
   owners get their first repair bill following a simple fender bender. The Wall   
   Street Journal reports that a San Francisco resident got in a minor accident   
   with his electric truck.    
   He thought that repairs would be "a couple-thousand-dollar bill from the   
   repair shop and to be without his truck for a couple of weeks."    
      
   Instead, the first-time EV owner was shocked to get a $22,000 bill for repairs   
   that took 2 1/2 months.   
      
   One big issue.....potentially damaged battery packs have to be treated like a   
   ticking time bomb.      
      
   ScottW   
      
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