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Everything You Know About EV Repair Costs Is Wrong

27 Aug 2023 | Abstracted from Road&Track

"It's time to debunk the widely circulated idea that Teslas are being written off en masse after relatively minor accidents; and debunk, too, the idea that EVs and their batteries are leading to runaway repair costs."

"Clickbait tends to smell. And when it comes to EV scaremongering, I detected something fishy about two tales

"...gasoline cars are three times as likely to be totaled after an accident than a Tesla or other EV"

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