From: ScottW48@hotmail.com   
      
   On Monday, December 4, 2023 at 5:12:51 AM UTC-8, mINE109 wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   You forgot to include the damage caused to other vehicles due to the EVs fat   
   mass.   
      
   ScottW   
      
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