Some insurers are forced to scrap whole electric vehicles if their batteries are scratched or slightly damaged as they lack reparability and cost as much as 50% of the total vehicle.
VOLKSWAGEN CEO SAYS BUILDING EV BATTERIES IN EUROPE ‘PRACTICALLY UNVIABLE’ DUE TO SOARING ENERGY COSTS
A partially disassembled 4680 structural battery pack from a Tesla Model Y, built in Austin, Texas, is displayed under a sheet of plexiglass in Auburn Hills, Michigan U.S. March 3, 2023. "The number of cases is going to increase, so the handling of batteries is a crucial point," Lauterwasser said.EVs need to be driven for thousands of miles before the extra emissions used to create them, which are more than fossil-fuel models, are offset. Should these EVs be scrapped before they reach that off-setting figure, they have more of an environmental impact than the cars they are attempting to replace.
He added: "If you throw away the vehicle at an early stage, you've lost pretty much all advantage in terms of CO2 emissions."
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