{"id":1902770,"date":"2023-03-22T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inability-to-repair-damaged-electric-vehicle-batteries-presents-sustainability-problems\/"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:32:50","slug":"inability-to-repair-damaged-electric-vehicle-batteries-presents-sustainability-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inability-to-repair-damaged-electric-vehicle-batteries-presents-sustainability-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Inability to repair damaged electric vehicle batteries presents sustainability problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finability-to-repair-damaged-electric-vehicle-batteries-presents-sustainability-problems%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1902770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_79409428\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n        <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Cuban baseball player abandons team, becomes first to defect during World Baseball Classic\"><br \/>\n        <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Team Cuba catcher Ivan Prieto defected to the United States during the World Baseball Classic. 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said Matthew Avery of Thatcham Research, an automotive risk intelligence company. &#8220;But an EV isn&#8217;t very sustainable if you&#8217;ve got to throw the battery away after a minor collision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Ford and General Motors have reportedly made their EV battery packs easier to repair, experts suggest that Tesla&#8217;s Model Y battery pack has &#8220;zero repairability.&#8221; Due to the high cost of replacing battery packs, which can be tens of thousands of dollars, and represent nearly half of an EV&#8217;s original price, insurance companies are being forced to scrap even low-mileage EVs and raise premiums.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An insurance company is not going to take that risk because they&#8217;re facing a lawsuit later on if something happens with that vehicle and they did not total it,&#8221; said Peter Gruber of Gruber Motor Company.<\/p>\n<p>Experts are warning that the environmental advantage of EVs is at risk, as the number of cases of damage to EV batteries is likely to increase. &#8220;If you throw away the vehicle at an early stage, you&#8217;ve lost pretty much all advantage in terms of carbon dioxide emissions,&#8221; said Christoph Lauterwasser, managing director of the Allianz Center for Technology.<\/p>\n<p>These warnings come as federal and state leaders have moved to ban the sale of all new gasoline-powered cars by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8216;Read More From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/damaged-electric-vehicle-batteries-sustainability-problems\">&#8220;Inability to repair damaged electric vehicle batteries presents sustainability problems&#8221;<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are questioning how sustainable the push for vehicles going electric may be in light of it being nearly impossible to repair slightly damaged battery packs after accidents. &#8220;We&#8217;re buying electric cars for sustainability reasons,&#8221; 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