Most of the talk in this thread so far has been about the costs and delays associated with repairing Teslas (and other EV’s) after accidents.
Yesterday at my seniors golf group’s monthly bbq I was quizzed about this - being the only EV owner out of the 42 members. Talk eventually lead to the seemingly never-ending reports of stolen vehicles being thrashed/totalled by misbehaving teenagers.
That gave me the opportunity to ask the old blokes if they could remember any reports of Teslas being stolen. None could.
I then related the report of tennis player Nick Ks model S being hijacked from his mother and his subsequent use of the speed limiter and location abilities of the Tesla to guide the police to the car, which was recovered without damage.
I now wonder if after a few more years of nil or very few stolen Teslas that insurance companies might start to take these stats into their calculations - or do they already? I do understand that the parking/garaging suburb etc is taken into account with quite heavy loadings applied to certain areas, but many high end luxury cars are being stolen from some pretty high end suburbs. Should a Tesla owner in those suburbs be penalised/rewarded?
Not me and not asking for a friend.