CANADA: ICBC [Insurance] scraps 2022 electric car after owners faced with $60,000 bill to replace damaged battery | Damage to the EV's battery voided the vehicle's warranty and the quoted $60,000 replacement was more than a new car was worth, so ICBC wrote off and scrapped the nearly new automobile.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/ev-battery-icbc-writeoff
In Canada, Trudeau's centrally planned economy has decreed that ALL cars sold be electric by 2035--eleven years from now. Everyone is screaming that's bloody impossible, but of course no one is listening.
... Automotive journalists Zack and Andrea Spencer chronicled the case on their Motormouth YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr3mFzh0KSk and said the case raises big questions for EV manufacturers around replacement costs and repairability of batteries as Ottawa introduces new rules to speed up EV adoption.
“The story is, people are buying these cars not knowing what the actual cost of the most important component of the car is to replace,” Zack Spencer said.
They're kept heated but it uses energy.
Battery cars are for retards. Everyone knows it's impossible to build a battery that doesn't leak and expand. Heck, you can't leave two double AA's in a remote control without at least one doing so. These cars uses thousands. With water, potholes and salt, there's no way this is sustainable.