{"id":2068932,"date":"2023-10-16T13:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ev-wont-start-after-driving-in-rain-owner-left-speechless-when-stuck-with-20k-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T17:46:48","slug":"ev-wont-start-after-driving-in-rain-owner-left-speechless-when-stuck-with-20k-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ev-wont-start-after-driving-in-rain-owner-left-speechless-when-stuck-with-20k-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Car won&#8217;t start after rain, owner shocked by $20K repair cost."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fev-wont-start-after-driving-in-rain-owner-left-speechless-when-stuck-with-20k-bill%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=2068932&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--><h2>EV \u200bWon&#8217;t Start After Driving in Rain,\u2064 Owner Left Speechless \u200dWhen Stuck with \u2063$20K Bill<\/h2>\n<p>Americans thinking about buying a Tesla electric vehicle might have just gotten a reason to pump the\u2064 brakes on their plans \u2014 especially if they live somewhere it might rain.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to the Scottish news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/edinburgh-couple-fume-handed-17k-27906242?_ga=2.246347724.933278429.1697443215-401898413.1697443216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EdinburbghLive<\/a>, the\u2062 owner of a \u2064Tesla has been asked by the company to fork over the equivalent of more than $20,000 for repairs\u200c to a\u2064 battery that was reportedly damaged by\u200b rain while it was parked\u2064 on a street in the\u200b Scottish capital last week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound like\u200c it might be a problem? The owner sure thought so.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to\u2064 the report, the vehicle belongs to Johnny Bacigalupo and Rob Hussey, a\u200d gay couple living in the Edinburgh suburbs. On Oct. 7, they drove into the city for dinner without any problem, but they found the \u200bcar\u200d wouldn\u2019t start afterward.<\/p>\n<p>They waited for hours for Tesla roadside assistance, EdinburghLive reported, which\u200d only resulted \u2064in the vehicle being hauled away.<\/p>\n<p>But that was only the beginning of the trouble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter complaints from me, we received a call \u2063at 5:30 p.m. on the \u2063Wednesday, saying the battery was damaged due \u200dto water ingress and it was unfortunately not \u200bcovered by the battery\u2019s 8-year\u200c warranty, and so the repair would\u2063 be around \u200d\u00a317,500 [$21,351],\u201d Bacigalupo said, according to \u2062the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid I wish to proceed? I was flabbergasted \u2062and couldn\u2019t really find my \u2062words.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report, unfortunately,\u200c did not specify the \u200cmake or model year \u2063of the Tesla in question, but \u200da\u200d $20,000 car \u2062repair bill \u200bwould leave just about anybody \u2062\u201cflabbergasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the company\u2019s excuse \u2014 that the electric vehicle was disabled by a rainstorm \u2014 would have left a resident of the traditionally \u200bwet Britain even more so.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAfter finally getting to\u2063 speak to a manager, he told me it had water in it due to the fact the weather \u2064in Scotland has been so bad,\u201d Bacigalupo told\u200c EdinburghLive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the issue. They said\u2063 it\u2019s not\u200c necessarily my\u200b fault, but it\u2019s not Tesla\u2019s to pay under warranty. He\u200c reminded \u200dme there\u200d was a yellow weather warning in some parts of Scotland.\u201d (A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/weather\/guides\/warnings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cyellow\u201d weather warning<\/a> \u200bissued \u200cby \u200dthe Met, the United \u2062Kingdom\u2019s national weather service, covers a range of potential rainfall, from moderate to severe in\u200c localized areas.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bacigalupo told\u2064 EdinburghLive the weather didn\u2019t seem that bad \u2014 \u201cI honestly can\u2019t remember any \u200chuge puddles \u200cor\u2064 anything like that\u201d \u2014 but even if it was extremely foul, it\u2019s unlikely the owner of a vehicle with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-philadelphias-proterra-fleet-in-complete-shambles\/\" title=\"Report: Philadelphia\u2019s Proterra Fleet in Complete Shambles\">internal combustion engine<\/a> would\u2062 have \u2062the same problem.<\/p>\n<p>If heavy rains disabled car engines on a regular basis, states like Florida, where daily torrential downpours arrive like clockwork during the rainy season, would\u2063 be\u200d a combination of parking \u2063lots and salvage yards. (And that doesn\u2019t even count <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/florida-fire-department-issues-warning-ev-owners-seeing-hurricanes-trigger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the occasional hurricane<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>EdinburghLive said it had contacted\u2062 Tesla about \u200bBacigalupo\u2019s story, without apparent response. But the outlet also said\u200c it had reviewed \u200d\u201ccorrespondence\u201d\u200b that confirms the monetary figure Bacigalupo \u2063cited for the \u2063repair.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously,\u200c one incident doesn\u2019t damn \u2062an entire company, much less\u200d an industry as big and growing as electric vehicle manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>But the story has to give pause to even enthusiastic adopters of the \u200dtechnology.<\/p>\n<p>EVs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/evs-popular-gas-cars-century-ago-couldnt-avoid-big-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their\u2064 current incarnation<\/a> are in their infancy compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/inventions\/automobiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">century-and-a-quarter life<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-house-democrats-join-with-gop-to-fight-californias-electric-vehicle-mandate\/\" title=\"8 House Democrats join GOP to oppose California's EV mandate.\">internal\u2064 combustion engine<\/a> \u2062for vehicles. \u2062And even \u2062if the \u200ctechnology ultimately wins \u200bout (not a guaranteed proposition\u200c by any means) there are \u200cgoing to be growing pains.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the\u2062 progressives on\u2062 a global scale \u2014 the Democratic\u200c Party in\u2063 the U.S. \u2014 are intent \u200con\u2064 pushing\u2062 the technology\u200d on all motorists by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-evs-facing-total-scarcity-critical-component-spells-disaster-biden-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arbitrary dates<\/a> concocted\u2063 in Washington and other capitals, rather than letting the free market do\u200b its job.<\/p>\n<p>So governments\u200b like President Joe \u2062Biden\u2019s administration go out \u2063of their \u2064way to incentivize EV production and sales \u2063even if it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jeep-factory-workers-laid-off-due-cost-switch-evs-gets-even-worse-find-factory-opening-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">damages<\/a> the traditional \u200bauto\u200c industry. They insist that drivers make the switch even though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/electric-car-fail-25-charging-stations-deep-blue-region-not-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infrastructure isn\u2019t in place<\/a> in any consistent way.<\/p>\n<p>They appear \u200dto be deliberately \u200bblinded to the increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/embarrassing-limitations-evs-became-painfully-clear-arctic-blast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">well-documented problems<\/a> EVs bring with them \u200dthat simply aren\u2019t a factor for traditional cars, or they \u200bdo their best to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pete-buttigieg-admits-issues-electric-vehicle-spending-100-million-taxpayer-dollars-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper them over<\/a> or \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/house-oversight-committee-launches-investigation-biden-officials-ev-road-trip-led-911-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cover \u2064them up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s all to worship at the altar of the god of \u201cclimate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But eventually, \u200cas Bacigalupo found out, the \u200cbill is going to arrive \u2014 and someone is going \u2062to have to pay it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI honestly can\u2019t believe that \u2062this\u200c has happened. When I first got the call\u200c I\u2064 thought we would \u2063get bill for \u00a3500 or \u00a31000 [$600 to $1.200],\u201d he \u200dtold EdinburghLive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they said over 17 grand \u2013 it\u2019s\u200b absolutely obscene. My heart missed a beat, \u2063honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf \u2064I had known the customer service would be so bad I\u2019m\u2063 not sure I would have bothered buying \u200bthe car. Do they know that we\u2019re in Scotland? That weather was \u200bnot abnormal for living\u2063 here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNot abnormal\u201d is a relative term. Car owners who live in an area where it\u200d rains more than, say, Arizona, might want to keep Bacigalupo\u2019s story\u2062 in mind.<\/p>\n<p>You never \u2062know when $20,000 might come in handy.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How can manufacturers improve \u2062communication and transparency with customers to ensure a smoother experience with electric vehicles<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>results\u2064 in job losses<\/a> in traditional industries like \u2064auto manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>While the push for \u200bcleaner energy sources and reduced\u200b emissions is commendable, rushing the adoption of electric vehicles without addressing the challenges and potential drawbacks can have unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Stories \u200clike the\u2063 one experienced by Bacigalupo \u2064and Hussey serve as a reminder that EVs, despite \u2064their many advantages, still have limitations and vulnerabilities that need \u2064to be addressed. \u200cIn this case, the claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ev-wont-start-after-driving-in-rain-owner-left-speechless-when-stuck-with-20k-bill\/\" title=\"Car won't start after rain, owner shocked by K repair cost.\">heavy rainfall caused significant damage<\/a>\u2064 to\u2063 the vehicle raises questions about the durability and reliability \u2064of EV components.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the fact that the repair cost exceeded $20,000 and was not\u2064 covered by the warranty is concerning. EV owners may need to be prepared for \u2064potentially high repair bills, even for seemingly minor issues, which \u200dcould significantly\u200c impact their financial well-being.<\/p>\n<p>As the EV industry continues to grow and evolve,\u2062 it \u2064is crucial for manufacturers to ensure that their vehicles\u200b are \u200bcapable of withstanding various weather conditions without incurring substantial damage.\u2063 This incident highlights the importance \u200dof rigorous\u2063 testing and quality control to\u200c identify\u200b potential vulnerabilities and prevent costly repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it is essential for EV manufacturers to improve communication \u2064and transparency with\u200b their customers. Bacigalupo and Hussey were seemingly left in the dark for hours while waiting for roadside assistance, and the \u200bexplanation they received regarding the damage to \u200btheir vehicle seemed\u200b insufficient. Clear and timely communication can help alleviate frustrations and build trust between \u2063manufacturers\u200d and customers.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, while the incident mentioned\u2063 in this article may not represent the \u2063norm for EV owners,\u200c it raises \u200cimportant questions \u200dabout the resilience, reliability, and cost of repairs for electric vehicles. As governments and\u200b manufacturers continue to \u200bpromote and incentivize\u2062 the adoption of\u200b EVs, it is crucial for\u200c them to address these concerns \u200dand ensure that customers are adequately informed about \u200dthe potential risks and costs associated with owning an electric vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>By \u200ddoing\u2064 so, they\u200b can help build confidence in the technology and ensure a smoother<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans considering purchasing a Tesla may want to reconsider, especially if rain is a concern. A Tesla owner was reportedly requested by the company to pay a substantial amount due to water damage. 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