A survey conducted by the Danish newspaper Politiken among Denmark's largest insurance companies gives a coherent picture. Electric car owners more often report injuries than owners of other vehicles.

Topdanmark states that electric cars are involved in 20 percent more incidents than other types of car. For Tesla, the figure is 50 percent. A lot of the damage is due to the car crashing into a concrete pillar in the parking garage or in the carport at home, according to Jens Røpke, Head of Product Development at Topdanmark.

"Need to get used to"

- It probably happens because electric cars accelerate quickly and it can surprise the driver, Jens Røpke tells the newspaper.

Codan, Tesla's official insurance partner in Scandinavia, sees the same trend. The figures from Norway, where there are significantly more electric cars than in the other Nordic countries, show that half of all new electric cars suffer damage during the first year. For other car owners, the figure is 25-30 percent.

- It is clear that people need to get used to something completely different when you press the accelerator in an electric car, says Søren Friis at Codan

Mainly run by men

Tesla says in an e-mail to Politiken that one reason could be that many customers switch from shorter and narrower cars, which requires the use of the driver.

Anders Fjendbo Jensen at the Technical University of Denmark sees another reason behind the over-representation of electric cars in accident statistics: More men drive electric cars, and men tend to take greater risks.

Danish authorities have no statistics on how electric cars are performing in the general accident statistics, so it is unknown how often electric cars are involved in serious accidents involving personal injury.