According to recent news from the blogger "Autobot One Zero", an electric car owner in Hangzhou was driving a new car that was just a month old. When he was rolling a floor tile in the parking lot, the raised floor tile hit the vehicle chassis, causing a plastic buckle on the battery pack shell connected to the wheel arch to break.
Since the buckle and the battery box have an integrated structure, the manufacturer refused to repair the buckle separately on the grounds of "IP68 sealing integrity is not recoverable" and "integrated design" and forced replacement of the entire package. The quote was as high as 130,000 yuan, nearly half the price of the car!
However, the buckle itself is made of high-temperature-resistant PPS plastic, and the retail price of the same specifications on the e-commerce platform is only about 89 yuan, which is as much as the maintenance fee of 130,000 yuan.
The insurance company believes that paying a separate compensation of 130,000 yuan for the battery pack is too high, and the battery pack itself has no performance problems, so it is unwilling to bear the full replacement cost. However, the electric vehicle manufacturer insists on the maintenance plan of "the battery pack assembly is not separable and needs to be replaced as a whole" and refuses to repair the buckle separately.
In the end, the vehicle was treated as a total loss, and the insurance company compensated for the value of the vehicle itself, but the owner could not be compensated for the nearly 10,000 yuan in additional expenses such as the wraps he installed himself. Such heavy bleeding made him say he was devastated..
