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
Comment on ‘The quotes were £5,000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance costs
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Analysts say claims costs are 25% higher for electric cars, and that they also take about 14% longer
Why?
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 11 months ago
marsokod@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Car batteries are huge, irreparable, and expensive.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 months 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.
tal@kbin.social 11 months ago
Seems like one could make multiple smaller batteries.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 11 months 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.
tal@kbin.social 11 months ago
If the issue producing the high repair costs is large batteries, though, one would get lower repair costs.