I noticed this short story today from Switzerland, where a car insurance company put out the statistical information on gas-car versus battery-car accident rates.
Here's the strange thing....which ought to make you pause and wonder. Battery-cars have a 40-percent higher rate of car accidents than gas-cars. Yep.....40-percent higher. Reason? It's not that clear at present.
AXA is the company that did this, and it's centered ONLY on Switzerland.
Will this affect rates? OH YES. That's probably not what people expected....to pay 10-to-20 percent higher insurance rates for their new electrical car.
Why? One might go and speculate that the handling is different, or the take-off ratio might be more than a gas-car. Handling on ice or snow different? I doubt it.
But this will drag out a fair amount of talk if it matches up to countries like the Netherlands, France, or Germany.
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