Tesla News: Future Cars Could Include Insurance, Maintenance In Initial Price

[rangerrebew]

Tesla News: Future Cars Could Include Insurance, Maintenance In Initial Price
By Denisse Moreno On 02/23/17 AT 5:34 PM

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Elon Musk took to Twitter to announce that his blog post for the new Autopilot update has been postponed. Photo: Getty Images/VCG

Tesla wants to integrate insurance and maintenance into the price of future cars, the company said in a call Wednesday.

Tesla, revealed it has already started testing out the insurance-maintenance bundle with cars it has sold in Asia. Jon McNeill, the company’s president of global sales and services made the revelations during Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings call.

Tesla said it could offer the services by working with other insurance companies, and is also considering handling insurance in-house too.

http://www.ibtimes.com/tesla-news-future-cars-could-include-insurance-maintenance-initial-price-2496929

[Oceander]

Interesting idea.  The insurance component is the more dubious of the two, since it won't be able to account for changes in risk when a car is sold second-hand, and as a result premiums for safer drivers would be higher than under a separate policy, but it might work since the pool of vehicles would be very large.

[geronl]

Interesting idea.  The insurance component is the more dubious of the two, since it won't be able to account for changes in risk when a car is sold second-hand, and as a result premiums for safer drivers would be higher than under a separate policy, but it might work since the pool of vehicles would be very large.

Sounds a bit Halal to me

[Wingnut]

Looks like Saint Elon wants to get into the insurance business now.   The man is a genius...at using other peoples and government money.