Intelligence: The Tesla threat - EV disruption will hit the insurance market

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Insurers have long been wary that car manufacturers could hijack a slice of the motor insurance market, but as David Worfold explains, it is electric vehicles and their connectivity that are likely to be the most disruptive force in the immediate future.

Insurers have been nervously scanning the horizon for several years wondering whether data-rich tech firms such as Google and Amazon will enter the insurance market, especially for mass-market

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