Gas cars are very safe to work on relative to EVs. Electric car batteries are very dangerous when damaged, and any high voltage work requires extreme caution. T

Gas cars are very safe to work on relative to EVs. Electric car batteries are very dangerous when damaged, and any high voltage work requires extreme caution. The whole simplicity argument for electric cars was just a marketing spiel. Every car manufacturer has to make trade-offs between production and assembly costs and repairability. Tesla has made perfectly reasonable choices that optimize for cheaper production but that also result in 10k repair bills for fender benders. Another issue is that EVs are very high torque, much like motorcycles and go carts. Teslas especially so. Most people are poor drivers and not capable of driving cars like that safely. People tend to panic and hit the throttle instead of the brake pedal when the torque takes them by surprise. More crashes -> higher insurance premiums.