Posted on 07/07/2023 1:10:17 AM PDT by Libloather
Electric car owners face soaring insurance and repair costs over fears the vehicles could explode after being in even minor collisions.
Damaged EVs must be 'quarantined' 15 metres apart from other cars in repair shops due to the risk of battery fires under government guidelines – driving up the price for mechanics and insurers.
A lack of suitable repair shops and EV trained mechanics risks increasing costs to the insurance industry by more than £600million, which could be passed on to drivers.
As more battery-powered vehicles take to the road insurers will need to spend an additional £900million per year, adding £20 per year to all car insurance premiums, according to a report by automotive risk firm Thatcham Research.
This is likely to rise to £28 by 2050 when there will be an expected 360,000 EVs on the roads, the report revealed. The batteries in electric vehicles can be extremely sensitive and what might be a harmless blow to a petrol car can write-off an EV. There are also risks when they catch fire as they can burn for days.
The Daily Mail has launched a campaign calling on ministers to rethink the 2030 ban on sales of new petrol and diesel cars, which is designed to turbocharge the switch to EVs and aid efforts to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
The report found last year 9,400 EVs were potentially involved in crashes resulting in batteries needing repair, but this could rise to 260,000 by 2035. It said insurers and mechanics need to rapidly adapt to EVs to avoid the risk that the cars are only available to the rich.
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Imagine waking up at 3:30AM and discovering your house is on fire caused by your EV parked in your attached garage spontaneously combusting. Might cause some interesting challenges for the insurance company.
lplzz
The state of California cannot be acting more foolishly. The dangers of electric cars make the topic a non-starter. They’ll put gasoline and deisel car manufacturers out of buiness and the factories non-functioning. That is the plan. To bring the West to its knees.
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.
"could be passed on to the drivers"
COULD???
Why do you think the consequences are unintended?
“The Daily Mail has launched a campaign”
The time to do that was when they were first subsidized. Too late now, the eco scam has been successfully sold and the money is pouring in.
Like the vax the
So call cure is actually the problem.
Dogs must be vaxing by edict to prevent what, them getting sick and passing it on to other unvaxed dogs or unvaxed dogs from endangering them?
Kind od begs question of vax effacy. Sounds familiar flip and flop.
How much “carbon” does an EV produce when it is burning?
Pintos were susceptible to exploding, and were taken off the market I be,eive in short order (though the ones that were bought were still used). But no matter how many fires, lives lost due to the asinine ine electric car push, they will likely never remove them from the market
What makes you think this is unintended?
Damaged EVs must be ‘quarantined’ 15 metres apart from other cars in repair shops due to the risk of battery fires under government guidelines
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50 foot radius per EV in a repair shop’s parking lot: does that mean that the shop can only take on car into the shop to repair?
That’s a lot of real estate per repair shop or dealer; only very big shops and dealers will be able to set that much space aside just for EVs.
Apparently...a lot.
Here’s a Tesla crash outside Orlando I happened to see on a drive-by on July 4th. It was burning pretty good.
https://www.clickorlando.com/traffic/2023/07/04/fatal-crash-slows-traffic-along-sr-417-in-orange-county/
Gas-powered cars are thirty-five times more likely to catch fire. What makes EV fires such the internet hysteria (and I do use the word “hysteria”) is that they are very difficult to put out. But what portion of those 35 gas fires result in a massive fireball? More than one?
Y’all are missing the bigger picture here.
The leftists aren’t trying to kill off the fossil-fuel industry because they have some reason for preferring green tech. They’re doing it because they didn’t think green tech would work.
The real issue is that they want to destroy civilization altogether.. or lock people away within public-transit. Now they hate Musk because he made a viable green solution. You’ve seen the EV fires. You wouldn’t want to be within a few miles of them because of all that smoke. But do those fires really look like they’re going to set off cars 50 feet away?
yeah but generally they catch fire on the road because of overheating, or gettign say sod on the exhaust pipes which dries, then catches fire etc- - gas cars i mean-
ev cars catch fire in garages or next to houses where flames spread- a lot of battery operated things can erupt inside the home too or garage-
i just wouldn’t want to have to charge a car in my garage or outside the garage next to the house- every evening- bad enough that rechargeable things like phones laptops etc have to be charged-
the goal of banning gas cars
is to put everyone on a bus
How many people die of carbon monoxide poisoning from cars in their garage?
Teslas are to the right what semi-automatics are to the left. Semi-automatics are responsible for a vanishingly small portion of murders in America. But when they are involved, they make for mind-seizing drama. A thousand kids killed one-by-one by handguns or fentanyl or knives don’t make nearly the same amount of drama as a dozen kids killed by a rampage killer in a school.
Likewise, if someone dies in their home because they got distracted when taking the groceries in and left the car running, no-one knows*. But if they die because they got in a fender-bender and then drove their Tesla through too much standing water, their house fire will make every 10:00 news show across the globe.
(*I’ve done something similar. When my wife went into labor, I left the keys in the ignition and then briefly panicked when the car engine wouldn’t turn over until I realized it was already running. Now, no-one died because (1) it was outside anyway and (2) I came running back out IMMEDIATELY because what had me running so quickly I forgot the keys was my wife’s labor. And probably (3) it’s not like every time someone leaves a car engine running in a closed garage everybody dies....)
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