From our friends at aftermarketNews: A conversation with Roger McCollum.
In this AMN Drivetime podcast with host Bill Babcox, the two CEOs talk about McCollum’s drive to serve others.
We discuss some of the latest data surrounding EV collision work and the lack of available data and for EVs.
Collisions happen, and even when no one is hurt, they're a pain. Working with insurance, getting your car worked on, potentially being without a car for a while... none of it is fun. With an EV, this entire process can be even more problematic.
"I think [drivers] need to know that if they're involved in an accident in their EV, they need to have a whole different set of expectations around what's going to go on as it relates to repairing that vehicle and bringing it back to pre-loss condition," says Ryan Mandell, the director of claims performance at Mitchell. "We say all the time that these vehicles are not simply just an electrified version of the internal combustion engine vehicle. These are really something that are wholly different because of the complete re-engineering of all the propulsion systems and the way that power is managed, and that very significantly changes the requirements for collision repair. And, we can't simply just use the same kind of labor calculations to determine the number of days it's going to take to repair."
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