From: pianoforte109@yahoo.com   
      
   On 12/3/23 7:21 PM, ScottW wrote:   
   > "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.   
      
   What a sad anecdote. Good thing EVs are so expensive only people who can   
   afford to repair them can buy them in the first place.   
      
   In more typical cases, minor accident repairs for small EVs are "27%   
   more than the average for roughly comparable non-EV models," and 53%   
   more for SUVs according to sources quoted in Forbes.   
      
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