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Chop shops to steal what? Tires? Window glass? There's not much to part out on an EV.
by calciphus 2y ago
Chop shops to steal what? Tires? Window glass? There's not much to part out on an EV.
- JohnFen 2y agoBatteries? Motors? Electronics? Even a basic EV is chock full of parts that I pay good money with legitimate retailers for.
- practicemaths 2y ago[dead]
- 91bananas 2y agoThere's like, the whole part that makes it go that is pretty valuable. https://stealthev.com/product/tesla-performance-rear-drive-unit/ https://stealthev.com/product/tesla-performance-rear-drive-u..., there is 12k retail, maybe a few thousand on the black market... sounds pretty lucrative.
- Scoundreller 2y agoIn my experience, part out value is a function of the (un)availability of spare/replacement parts. I’ve made decent recoveries parting out my old MacBook Airs when upgrading, like 75%+ contribution to my replacement unit (without properly accounting for my disassembly/listing/packaging/shipping time). With an electric car, there’s some value in a motor that came out of a particular car for some other project, even if the motors don’t typically fail. Lots of franken-Tesla projects out there, just as some of my parts hit the hackintosh market.