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

shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Brickhead92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This was us a couple years ago. Budgeted for a Tesla as a 2nd vehicle, did a test drive, looked into things like insurance and servicing more closely and noped out of it. At the time it was about $3200 a year to insure a Model 3.

  Instead of getting a single car, I got a Hyundai EV, and we traded in the old Toyota Hybrid as well and got a plug-in hybrid for less than the Tesla would have cost us. Plus insurance for both is about $1000 less than the Tesla alone. The math didn’t make sense.

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  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s interesting. My next car will be electric, hopefully. It’s never even occurred to me until now that the insurance would be hugely different

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    • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not really for any normal car (not Tesla). I have a Kia EV6 and Kia K5 (not an EV) and the insurance premium is $310.87 (covers both cars, 2 drivers, in Florida). The insurance on the K5 alone, for one driver was about $180 before that.

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      • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Errm Florida prices aren’t particularly relevant to the UK ? No ?

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