Comment on ‘The quotes were £5,000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance costs

bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Car batteries are huge, irreparable, and expensive.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sealed and proprietary is a problem with anything, and I hate it, but I don’t think the battery is normally the problem. They out last the rest of the car from what I’m seeing. There are people are using them for second life stuff.

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  • tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    EV batteries are huge, hard to repair, and expensive.

    Seems like one could make multiple smaller batteries.

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s an array of cells either way, it just increases the build complexity in making it more modular and takes up more space to make it so, which leaves you with less battery.

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      • tal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If the issue producing the high repair costs is large batteries, though, one would get lower repair costs.

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• HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s sorted of covered in the article. Partly batteries and new tech. Partly a lack of garages with the experience and knowledge to work on EVs

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• marsokod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would be tempted to say that with EV cars still being biased for the higher quality cars, and with Tesla still having a majority of the market, this should push the average cost of repair. Not sure when Tesla will fix their repair chain issues.

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