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None of those are "standard" sedans. Not by a long shot. It's perfectly reasonable to compare an A3 to a Model 3, but it's not reasonable to say that the standa
by village-idiot 8y ago
None of those are "standard" sedans. Not by a long shot. It's perfectly reasonable to compare an A3 to a Model 3, but it's not reasonable to say that the standard sedan is 4000#, since Civics & similar outnumber Audis & similar by an order of magnitude or so.
The point still remains that an EV is about 8-12% heavier than a sedan in its same class (see sibling comment below). This will apply to semitrucks too as those electrify, which'll be a bigger deal than sedans.
- sokoloff 8y agoA Civic or an A3 is not a mid-sized sedan by any stretch of that category. I used 4000# as a typical mid-size sedan as-driven weight with an allowance for a person or two and fuel.
- village-idiot 8y ago> A Civic or an A3 is not a mid-sized sedan by any stretch of that category. The Civic sedan is only 2" smaller length wise and 2" narrower than a Tesla 3. Size wise, this is a perfectly fair comparison, and the Civic weights 1,000lbs less. That's a pretty close comparison from a size perspective. You are correct about the A3, it is indeed much smaller than a Tesla 3. But the A4 is 1" longer than the 3 (identical in other dimensions), and weighs about 400lbs less. > I used 4000# as a typical mid-size sedan as-driven weight with an allowance for a person or two and fuel. Curb weight includes all necessary equipment, including oil and gasoline for ICE vehicles. Given that there is no reason to expect that an EV driver is a different weight than an ICE driver, it's completely fair to compare the two by curb weight only.