Car insurance cheaper for electric vehicles: report
In a perfect world, we would all drive electric cars, stopping in the nations Essos and Petro-Canadas for chips and chips alone.
But certainly our gas station needs are entirely pricier than just the cost of snacks, and a large part of that is because many Canadians can’t afford an electric car.
At a new tag falling in the range of $40,000, electric cars have undeniable benefits but simply cost too much for the average driver. In addition to the savings on fuel, more’s gotta give before Canadians en masse will get behind the wheel of an electric.
Could this help push the issue? According to new figures, auto insurance costs less for drivers of electric cars.
A few insurers out of the U.S. have been rolling out electric-centric campaigns lately, lowering the cost of car coverage for electric drivers.
*Bing: How does an electric engine work?
Hartford Insurance, for instance, announced last month it will discount coverage by five per cent on electric cars nationwide. According to Edmunds.com’s True Cost to Own estimates, the average premium on 2012 Volt owners is about $1,452 a year, compared to the gasoline-powered 2012 Cadillac CTS, which costs about $2,024 each year on average.
Sounds like a steal, though perhaps there’s an explanation why insurers are willing to discount coverage to electric car drivers.
Hartford Insurance said its five per cent discount is to support environmental sustainability, but the gritty truth is that maybe drivers of electric vehicles are of less risk to cover for insurers.
“When you look at electric vehicle owners, you probably have a pretty careful bunch there,” Jack Nerad, market analyst at Kelley Blue Book, told USA Today. “They’re probably pretty mature, and they’re not the young twentysomething male who gets into the most fights and has the most car accidents.”
By Jason Buckland, MSN Money
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Posted by: yerallnuts | May 27, 2021 11:33:59 AM
In a perfect world our cars would run indefinitely from stored solar power or from energy otherwise directly captured from nature.
The myth that electric cars are more environmentally friendly is just that, a myth - burning coal or oil to generate electricity to charge a battery is a remarkably inefficient way to run a vehicle - then, of course there are those very exotic materials that go into the manufacture - more pollution is created by the battery technology alone than almost anything else out there.
They're cheaper to run (in terms of the cost of the motive energy) because the governments have yet to figure out how to differentiate between home-used electricity and that consumed for vehicle use the way they have for farm fuel, for example - but once they start feeling the pain from the loss of tax revenue from gasoline sales, they'll figure it out - likely by charging based on driven miles - that's going to mean a boom in odometer rollback services when it happens.
Scrapping a conventional vehicle to purchase an overpriced all-electric with truly limited range is truly stupid.
As to insurance costs? I pay $770/year for my 2011 Cadillac CTS, full coverage with $500 deductible.
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