A Rivian owner was in a fender bender. The repair bill was $42,000.::The repairs cost over half the starting price for the Rivian EV. The owner said he’d expected it wouldn’t be cheap, but it was a “shocking number.”
All I want out of an EV is a fully electric 1990s era Single Cab Ford Ranger
Fender bender?
He crushed the roof under a streetlight and had to have the unibody structure repaired.
You can pry my 2008 Honda civic from my cold dead hands.
Cars were always terrible. And yet somehow someway they have gotten so much worse recently. I will continue to repair my car until I die.
According to the article, the reason the repair was expensive was structural and had nothing to do with it being an EV.
That being said, I ran over a rock with a 1 year old EV and totaled it because it put a 4” crack in the battery pack and cracked the high voltage power harness. (Insurance covered it…that’s what car insurance is for folks)
It sounds like a lot more than the fender got bent then, what a stupid title.
