gas-powered cars will become much more expensive to operate. Perhaps not in the US and A, but everywhere the Climate treaty of Paris has any value.

In Germany, you can buy used luxury cars at high discount due to being fuel inefficient for years now, and that is with barely a price increase for gas and barely 1 l/100km to through 3 l/100km cars taking up more market share.

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wil421 2 days ago | parent [-]

Beside fuel efficiency and the long charge time for EVs, many EVs seem more like non-repairable iPhones than their ICE counterparts. Tesla’s look very safe but seems like you can not replace body parts. Same with Rivian. I saw a guy dent a rear quarter panel and the quote was $45k. Only because the crazy way they manufactured things.

Is BYD any different?

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xnx 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> I saw a guy dent a rear quarter panel and the quote was $45k.

The expected repair cost was ~1/10 that: https://www.thedrive.com/news/41000-rivian-fender-bender-act...

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Ekaros 2 days ago | parent [-]

4100 still sounds insane amount of money. An amount that sounds like something somewhere or everywhere has gone wrong.

	▲	the_sleaze_ 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		More a story about the body shop / car insurance interplay and blue collar skilled service industry / Private Equity dynamics. My beat up truck got quoted 6k to replace a dent caused by a fender bender.

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kreetx 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just what I've heard, but an Uber driver told me how he upgraded his older Model 3 suspension to a newer variant because they attach the same way. So at least this part you can swap if you want.

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rcMgD2BwE72F 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Tesla’s look very safe but seems like you can not replace body parts

What?

https://parts.tesla.com/en-US/landingpage

https://epc.tesla.com/en-US/catalogs/dab210aa-2a7d-43b3-9e9b...

Anyone can by them directly from Tesla.