New Teslas are an increasingly common sight on North American roads, but they don’t stay new forever—and some get into accidents. If one takes more damage than is worth fixing, insurers might send it to a scrapyard.
But a scrapyard might not want damaged Teslas either. It’s much harder to make money from the relatively few parts that go into electric vehicles than gas-powered ones, and there’s the added potential that its batteries may spontaneously catch fire. So from a scrapyard, a damaged Tesla might be shipped to a buyer overseas.
