Comment on Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs
frezik@midwest.social 1 year agoYeah, and it comes up a lot when people say EVs aren’t paying their fair share and should have increased registration costs. The biggest hit on road maintenance is big trucks, and it’s not even close. We are all subsidizing this industry.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Diesel cars are 50kg heavier than EVs in general (maybe I can find the study again) and they’ve increased the most since 2012 in weight gained
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Plus they always give as an example, that e-hummer that weighs 9,000 lbs. that just shouldn’t exist. Meanwhile most EVs are 1/3 that weight