Is a severly damaged/repaird EV something to avoid?

We are looking at used EV's, and found a few that have been in multiple accidents. One car had $24k worth of repairs after an accident, then another accident that cost $18k and then a third at $22k. I guess in all of these crashes the batteries were damaged and replaced.
So does that mean you get a repaired car with all brand new batteries in it? Seems like that might not be so bad eh.
If you buy a car that had say $3k in repairs, then it didn't get new batteries, so that seems pretty bad doesn't it?

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Don't guess. Ask to see the records of the repair. A new battery for a Tesla Model S might be 10 kUSD which in one of your cases only leaves 8 kUSD for the rest of the work and material. Is that a reasonable amount for the damage in question?

As for the 3 kUSD, that's less than it cost to replace one door skin and repaint the side of the car after I scraped my Model S driving out of a multi-story car park. Luckily my insurance paid for it.