Electric cars are just much more expensive to repair once the damage has been done. At least if you compare with diesel and petrol cars.
Over recent years, the price of batteries for electric cars has fallen by 90 percent. It's just not really something the car owners notice.
On the contrary, motorists now also have to bear with the fact that electric cars are, on average, much more expensive to repair in the event of accidents. At least when the basis of comparison is pure diesel and petrol cars.
This is shown by a new investigation .
In the US alone, it is 20 percent more expensive to repair an electric car that has been involved in an accident than if it had been a petrol or diesel car.
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And not enough of that. Because although the number of electrified chore trains (hybrids are included here, ed.) fell in the second quarter, the number of accidents with them is increasing.
It is the company Mitchell, which has specialized in claims work, which is behind the investigation. And here there is not much to discuss.
It has cost an average of 5,753 dollars, equivalent to almost 39,000 kroner, to get one electric car back on the road again after an accident. That price is 4,806 dollars or just over 32,000 kroner for a car with a combustion engine.
It is interesting that the proportion of total damage is almost the same between one, two and three 'fuel types'. In 9.45 percent of the cases, the electric cars are written off as total losses, while this is the case in 9.16 percent of the cases for the petrol and diesel cars.
Certain electric cars are also impossible to insure. For example, several Danish and foreign insurance companies now say no to anything other than the statutory liability insurance on the otherwise brand new Fisker Ocean.
However, this is mostly due to the uncertainty surrounding the brand and the availability of the spare part. You can read much more about how Danish Fisker Ocean owners are now that the car brand is in the process of liquidating itself here .
That part of the story also includes the fact that an American Fisker owner has already had the insurance sum paid out for his Ocean. All because of a dent in the mandrel and the hassle of getting a new one.
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