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Posted on 11/14/2022 7:27:34 AM PST by DFG
The owner of a Hummer electric truck was shocked to learn replacing his tail lights is a rather expensive venture.
“Had a shocker today,” the owner wrote in a Hummer EV Facebook group. “A new passenger side rear light for the Hummer EV; $4,040 just to buy it.”
Car review website the Drive confirmed General Motor’s list price for one tail light is $3,045. Without factoring in labor, the list price for a set of tail lights runs for nearly $6,100, a cost equaling more than 5% of the Hummer EV’s MSRP.
“The taillights in the Hummer EV have small microcontrollers installed within them. These chips control unique lighting functions in their respective lights,” the Drive suggested as a reason for the high price. “Additionally, the Hummer EV is a fairly limited-run vehicle thus far, meaning parts are generally more expensive until economies of scale kick in.”
Maintenance expenses, in addition to software mishaps that have left EV drivers stranded , have drawn criticism in relation to the United States’s push toward electric vehicles.
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How much did he pay for a truck?
Assuming the lights pulse at high frequencies to “conserve power”?
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That’s why it’s called the “bleeding edge”.
It’s very expensive to be “the first on your block”. A simple pocket calculator at Radio Shack back in the 1970ish time frame cost over $100. And that is in 1970 dollars.
This is obscene.
That said.. How old is this thing? They have not been put that long. Is it not under warranty?
It’s probably a function of not having the part in stock.
Anyone dumb enough to buy a Humvee truck to begin with should not complain. All of these vehicles are experimental.
...but he saves $20 a month on gas. Seems like a good enough tradeoff, at least for a few here.
“Assuming the lights pulse at high frequencies to “conserve power”?”
Bingo. They ‘green’ aspects of everything drive the cost decimal point 2 places to the left. iow- $40. on green is $4,000.
It ain’t just EVs. Headlight and control module in our ‘07 S80 Volvo was over $1,500. Due to insulation failure in headlight. Volvo response? Sorry. That’s really too bad. But, paid for and can’t afford car notes any more soooo......
I have several older vehicles. I’m finding it difficult to source “working” parts for even common vehicles. With my Suburban I almost always took the part to the parts house to compare with the one they said would fit. Sometimes the parts had the same number but different connectors or screw locations. That’s with common, cheap cars. The cars today are wildly complex, and the parts will likely not be available even five years from now. There’s a row of Mercedes at the local pick and pull. They look like they could be on a high end used car lot. I asked and was told, “Well, that one needs a new engine...$15000. That one needs a transmission...$12000 and the rest need one or more computers, none of which are available. Used computers run up to several thousand and may or may not work and you won’t get your money back. Likely the diagnostics will go a bit further and tell you, ‘No, it’s this other computer.’”
Put some Unicorn dust on that tail light and drink a hot cup of hopeium and magic mushrooms. That will make buying that electric pile of poop seem like a good idea.
They’re over engineering these vehicles to the point where it creates chaos in every direction.
That’s not unique to EVs. In fact being an EV has nothing to do with taillight replacement cost.
It is not a bug, it is a feature.
2022 is the first year of the GMC Hummer EV. Warranty won’t cover physical damage but insurance might depending on how it got broken.
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In 1974 when I was in the Marines, I had to pay my roommate for his calculator that I accidentally busted with a floor buffer. It cost me $35 to replace. But I got to keep the damage done and repaired it so it would work.
According to the CPI Calculator, that equals $208 in today’s money......
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=35&year1=197408&year2=202210
Must have been about $120k.
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