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.