“Had a shocker today,” the owner wrote in a Hummer EV Facebook group. “A new passenger side rear light for the Hummer EV; $4,040 just to buy it.”Car review website the Drive confirmed General Motor’s list price for one tail light is $3,045. Without factoring in labor, the list price for a set of tail lights runs for nearly $6,100, a cost equaling more than 5% of the Hummer EV’s MSRP.
“The taillights in the Hummer EV have small microcontrollers installed within them. These chips control unique lighting functions in their respective lights,” the Drive suggested as a reason for the high price. “Additionally, the Hummer EV is a fairly limited-run vehicle thus far, meaning parts are generally more expensive until economies of scale kick in.”
Maintenance expenses, in addition to software mishaps that have left EV drivers stranded, have drawn criticism in relation to the United States’s push toward electric vehicles.Last week, President Joe Biden announced the awarding of $2.8 billion in new Department of Energy grants for projects meant to boost the transition to electric vehicles.
MTeacherWT I'm sure we're all going to weep over such suffering by Hummer owners...
EV owners are rich so they can afford it .
The Limosine Liberals want to board their G-7s and fly to the next climate control conference. This is all while I and the great mass of the citizenry now rely on city buses.
Progressive lefts keep blaming oil companies, companies they are trying to shut down by the way, for gouging but never speak of the rip off market for electric vehicles
When’s our transportation Secretary Pete going to tell everyone about this on top of the $20, 000 to replace the EV battery?