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Re:The Righteous EV Owners Who Won't Let Their Broken Cars Die by SR2Z on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @10:03AM (#47138037)
The elephant in the room when talking about EV repair costs is Tesla's gigapress that they use for the Model 3/Y.

It's excellent and cheap (at least it is now after thousands of customers have been used as guinea pigs and sold cars with wildly defective underpinnings) but it does mean that virtually any damage to the casting will total the car since it's not practical to replace or repair it.

Given that the majority of EVs on the road in the US are one of those two models, it really does spike average EV repair costs.

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Re:The Righteous EV Owners Who Won't Let Their Broken Cars Die by rangestransform on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @10:21AM (#47138285)
Damaging structural parts on any modern car is likely to total it, just because of the labour costs involved.
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