Electric Vehicle repair costs, insurance and rising costs.

[james t kirk]

I am sure you can find a way to redneck it up.

Yeah, put an L72 in it.

 

[dognutz]

What are collisions like with these boulders on wheels?

 

[Mr.Gr33k]

Kudos to you for being able to go 1100km without fill up. I am assuming you drive a hybrid. I can do a return trip on $44 while going 0-60 in 4.3, can you?

First of all, you assume wrong.

Here's just a few vehicles with a range of over 1200km per tank:
Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, Ford-150 gas or turbodiesel, VW Passat/Jetta TDI, Cadillac Escalade, GMC Yukon, Chevy Suburban... and the list keeps going.

Secondly, who gives a shit about how fast you can accelerate from 0 to 60 when intercity is mostly highway driving?? It's similar as boasting about being able to drive over 200km/hr. Sure, it's nice, but who gives a shit when it's not practical?

 

[anon1]

Anti-EVers have an ally.

'Incendiary devices' found at Quebec construction site for Northvolt EV battery plant

MONTREAL — A company building a major factory for electric vehicle batteries in Quebec says incendiary devices were found Monday morning at its construction site east of Montreal, in what is the latest act of alleged vandalism against the project. The devices consisted of bottles filled with...

ca.finance.yahoo.com

 

[kyleb899]

I drive a Tesla and I hate Trudeau with a passion. Never voted left, Never will. There goes your theory.

Tesla are just ugly expensive garbage, you must like Trudeau, you support his electric vehicle movement.
Old fashioned petro vehicles are always reliable.
Petro and Hybird vehicles should be the push

 

[Bucktee]

 

[Jubee]

With all the Tesla firings and the lack of sales, at least there will be spare parts available for those that need it. lol

...or will there?

 

[Butchers Dog]

The Business Insider - true cost of mining electric car-battery metals

 

[GameBoy27]

The Business Insider - true cost of mining electric car-battery metals

Oh geeeze, don't tell the Liberals.

In other news, Tesla stock is down 26.5% in the last 6 months.

 

[Carvher]

I drive a plug in Hybrid, a 2017 Volt, bought used in 2019.

About 95% of my driving is around town and entirely electric.
Even though the battery is smallish by current standards.
Electric range is 120km in the summer, more like 75 with more headlights, wipers, defrost etc in the winter.

It does my daily drop adult kids to their jobs then on to my workplace commute and home again all on electric.
Home overnight charges, and weekend mid day charges means gas does not get used much.

I got rear ended on the passenger rear side on the highway in 2021.
First insurance report made me think a write off was a a possibility.
In the end though the insurance company put me in a rental and took 7 weeks and $17.5k in repair costs.
Because that was less then their payout value.

The time to repair was mostly sourcing parts as not a lot of (non electric) components for this thing in scrap yards and GM parts train.

Yes, tires are an ongoing cost. Buy overall quite a bit cheaper to drive in my opinion.

I do enjoy changing the engine oil every 3 years, just because it got old.
Engine computer drops 3% off the oil life monitor every month after the first engine run post oil change.

You drive your adult kids to their job?

 

[bazokajoe]

Now GM is second guessing the EV market.

GM pushes back EV parts production at Ontario plant

The automaker is instead "assessing" when it wants the lines to start running, based on demand for its electric vehicles

driving.ca

 

[WoodPeckr]

GM historically does a lot of STUPID things. This is another example of GM myopic thinking.
Biggest GM blunder was taking a Big Oil bribe offer and killing EV1 back in 2000, then selling all GM's EV files/blueprints to TESLA a few years later! This is all on YouTube if you are interested in viewing it.
You may say GM who did all the work on EVs, helped create Tesla.

Ford on the other hand reported booming sales of vehicles and EVs.

 

[Jubee]

GM historically does a lot of STUPID things. This is another example of GM myopic thinking.
Biggest GM blunder was taking a Big Oil bribe offer and killing EV1 back in 2000, then selling all GM's EV files/blueprints to TESLA a few years later! This is all on YouTube if you are interested in viewing it.
You may say GM who did all the work on EVs, helped create Tesla.

Don't say that, you'll break a lot of tesla boys hearts. Elon = Edison 2.0. Chances are he wasn't even part of tesla when they got those files from GM. lol

Ford on the other hand reported booming sales of vehicles and EVs.

A thread about their sales, some good points. Incentives were the key in their sales it seems.

Ford EV sales are up, with Lightning sales up 91%! (May 2024 numbers)

Ford Again Defies Elon Musk's 'Tough Quarter' Gloom As EV Sales Keep Surging After Q1 Boom (msn.com) While the E-transit van saw a 77.0% jump in sales to 1,451 units, the Lightning pickup truck saw sales shoot up 91% and the Mach-E by 45.9% despite stiff competition in their respective vehicle...

www.f150lightningforum.com

 

[anon1]

GM historically does a lot of STUPID things. This is another example of GM myopic thinking.
Biggest GM blunder was taking a Big Oil bribe offer and killing EV1 back in 2000, then selling all GM's EV files/blueprints to TESLA a few years later! This is all on

And those stupid Japanese, who the hell wants to drive a Honda?

Honda announces four Ontario EV factories in $15-billion deal

Federal and Ontario officials and Honda were in Alliston, Ont., to make Canada's largest single EV supply chain announcement

electricautonomy.ca

 

[bazokajoe]

And those stupid Japanese, who the hell wants to drive a Honda?

Honda announces four Ontario EV factories in $15-billion deal

Federal and Ontario officials and Honda were in Alliston, Ont., to make Canada's largest single EV supply chain announcement

electricautonomy.ca

I do, and always will unless I win the lottery.

 

[Insidious Von]

If he were alive today, Joseph Conrad would have a field day over this.

 

[chuckster]

Setting aside any argument about climate change. When your EV does go wrong, it may be so costly to fix, that you may need to walk away.

Insurance costs are crazy

I’ve heard they’re difficult to sell used.
I can’t verify this.

Driving in Toronto is relatively easy, but what happens when you want to go to the cottage.
Infrastructure is not there.

There is so much change in the industry any infrastructure built today will be obsolete tomorrow. Only government throws good money after bad.

Until there is a smarter solution, I’m avoiding EVs

"but what happens when you want to go to the cottage." How about "what happens if you live in the Country" Where I live there are pretty much zero electrics. The Urban / Rural divide is this Country is wider than you might know.

 

[tml]

And those stupid Japanese, who the hell wants to drive a Honda?

Honda announces four Ontario EV factories in $15-billion deal

Federal and Ontario officials and Honda were in Alliston, Ont., to make Canada's largest single EV supply chain announcement

electricautonomy.ca

Apparently, a lot of people in Africa and the Middle East............if it's been stolen from North America.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Fisker just filed for bankruptcy

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/18/fisker-files-bankruptcy-ev-fisker-ocean

 

[xmontrealer]

I read in The Sun the other day that thieves are cutting the EV charging cables overnight and stealing them for the valuable copper content.

This also often damages the charger as well, not to mention the cost of replacing the charging cable.

So many reasons to not buy an EV...