• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A flooded ICE vehicle may be salvageable, if the water level didn’t get high enough to reach the level of the computer electronics or get into the transmission. I’ve owned a couple actually.

    But an electric vehicle, the battery pack is underneath the vehicle, so just a few inches of water, especially salt water, and it’s fucked, no chance of salvaging those at all. If by chance the water only affected the battery, it’s still effectively totalled out.

    TL;DR - ICE vehicles can stand a chance, depending on the depth of the flood water, but electric vehicles do not stand a chance.