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I presume they need tk work through a lot of legal bumf in each country before they can offer car insurance though. Most require the insurer to be registered as such under the appropriate regulating bodies. They clealry aren’t acting as a agent for a current insurer otherwise the premiums wouldn’t differ - the premiums are set by the actual insurer in the small print at the end of the day.It's quite expensive to insure EVs in America too, hence why Tesla started their own insurance.
In Australia for example I think we have only 3-5 actual hours insurers - all the other names companies simply act as agents for one of those and each has the premiums they can offer without referring to the actual insurance company.
I’m sure setting up as an actual insurer in each country isn’t a quick matter. If Tesla was to do that and offer cheaper premiums only to Teslas then that would be great for sure.