>Any critical repair, i.e anything close to the battery, often comes in the range of tens of thousands. What you're really paying for is the irrational fear.

>Any critical repair, i.e anything close to the battery, often comes in the range of tens of thousands. What you're really paying for is the irrational fear. The shops have to charge sky high prices to a) cover their butts or b) because they know nobody else will do it at a lower price. Electrical system repairs aren't particularly unknown or difficult. In a slightly more rational market someone would make a killing by specializing in those kinds of repairs. But because people are too scared to entertain the thought of driving these repaired cars some importer in Ukraine is making a killing on all these Norwegian EVs he fixes and you guys are paying for it. And Ukrainians (or whoever, that was just an example of a slightly less rich country) love the cheap EVs because they are not nearly rich enough to entertain irrational fears about repaired vehicles. There are lots of example of other markets like this where people who can pay a lot of money do pay a lot of money to avoid some irrational fear.