No, electric SUVs and other obese models are heavier. There's plenty of EVs that are lighter than ICE cars.
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JaymesRS@literature.cafe 8 months agoEVs are significantly heavier than ICE cars. That’s why this is a problem. The Rivian R1S is over 8,000 lbs.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 months ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not than an equivalent ICE car. Sure you can make a subcompact EV, but it’s either gonna have no range, or weigh more than a Nissan Versa.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 months ago
I mean, I never talked about just EVs. ICEs also have become way too big and consequently heavy over the decades. As far as I'm concerned, fuck cars in general.
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
The Rivian is absurd. What percent of Americans can even afford one? And what percent need one? This is why a tax on weight would be effective.
MinorLaceration@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure the R1s are large, but R2 and R3 are much more reasonably sized and are planned to be lower priced. It seems that these new EV companies like to go with fewer of their higher end cars in the beginning to fund the production of the larger volume, more economic models later.
Mango@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’d be the percent who should be exempt from the guard rails.