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by jerlam 975 days ago
Cars are going in the same direction.

One Rivian had a fender bender that cost $41K to fix: https://www.thedrive.com/news/rivian-r1t-fender-bender-turns...

Tesla is making their cars with huge single castings and structural batteries, making any repair to those components prohibitively expensive.