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EV Owners Waking Up to the Nightmare of
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Posted By: Hazymac, 12/3/2023 3:12:22 PM

"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. The Biden administration has a goal to have 50% of all new cars on the road in 2030 be electric vehicles.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: samoasam 12/3/2023 3:23:31 PM (No. 1609824)
Rick Moran say it’s still a mystery to me why Biden is pushing EVs. How stupid is Rick Moran?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Hazymac 12/3/2023 3:49:18 PM (No. 1609829)
It's not just that. If one fails to see, say, a five inch curb before turning right, and drags or bangs the bottom of the car on the raised concrete, it's embarrassing, but not usually damaging to one's ICE (internal combustion engine) car. If the same thing happens with an e-car, probably a ton or more heavier with its heavy Li-ion batteries built into the lowest part of the car, and the batteries are damaged, an intense fire that the local FD does not want to face will be the result.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Ketchuplover 12/3/2023 3:53:42 PM (No. 1609831)
Chatting with the guy who did some paintless dent repair on my 2007 Toyota, we got on the topic of EVs. He said that he had not yet worked on one, but he was very leery to do so, because he felt that he was putting his life in danger.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JHHolliday 12/3/2023 4:03:02 PM (No. 1609837)
As a retired insurance agent, I have been interested to learn that EV insurance is some 25% higher than similar ICE vehicles. It's easy to see why. So you buy your expensive EV, learn that you will also need to spend a couple of thousand or more for a fast charging station in your garage or driveway and then your agent drops the unwelcome news that your insurance will go up substantially. That may be OK for the wealthy elites but ordinary folks really can't afford an EV even with the maxed out taxpayers forced to subsidize them.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Omen55 12/3/2023 4:07:58 PM (No. 1609838)
Get a horse!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 12/3/2023 4:19:08 PM (No. 1609846)
Only my Porsches have exceeded $22,000 in the cost to PURCHASE. I have owned a number of new Accords, Civics and some used pickups and SUVs....NONE cost over $22,000 to buy. $22,000 for a REPAIR is insane. Another huge black mark on these foolish novelty commuter cars.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: mc squared 12/3/2023 4:43:21 PM (No. 1609858)
Hertz Chief Executive Officer (stated) that Hertz's integration of electric vehicles will proceed at a slower pace than previously projected.The reasons given for the impact on earnings were higher collision/damage repairs, and depreciation on EVs. Scherr stated in the Q3 earnings calls that damage costs on EVs have run about twice as high as comparable gasoline vehicles. The higher depreciation issue is because Tesla price cuts have lowered EV residual values. Forbes 10-31-23 https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2023/10/31/hertz-hurt-by-electric-vehicle-challenges/?sh=5f3024ad4878
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Reply 8 - Posted by: jalo1951 12/3/2023 5:19:37 PM (No. 1609871)
They want to make sure that the only transportation you take is government run public transportation. Outlaw fossil fuel and make sure that the purchase of an EV is not feasible for 95% of the population. You will not be able to afford a vehicle which is exactly what they want. It is about control. Everything they think of to impose upon us is about control. Take your guns, control your movement, control where you live, control your food, control your medical care. We are just cogs in their vast progressive wing movement to utopia. For them, not for us.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 12/3/2023 6:47:57 PM (No. 1609925)
Re #8.....they take the "Hunger Games" series of movies as their ideal future.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: HotPatty 12/3/2023 9:03:53 PM (No. 1609962)
Told ya...told ya...Told ya...told ya...Told ya...told ya...Told ya...told ya...
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