I'm not sure why you're upgrading my concerns about weight into "too heavy to be mass-market", I never said that. Conversations will typically be much more poli

I'm not sure why you're upgrading my concerns about weight into "too heavy to be mass-market", I never said that. Conversations will typically be much more polite if you engage directly with what is said, rather than what was not said. What I am saying is that the weight is a factor, especially since I am particularly concerned with the (in my opinion) unbearable cost of America's road network. You might disagree with with how much of an effect an EV will have, but ignoring tradeoffs and (unfairly) characterizing my concerns as "disingenuous or harmful" is neither helpful nor polite. > An electric car may be 12% heavier than a gasoline car, but a semi truck is still 1600% heavier than that. It's rather uncharitable of you to not apply my concerns to the EV conversion of semitrucks, since it's a direct and obvious parallel. While Tesla's semitruck is expected to come in at the total weight as a Diesel truck including cargo, they are quite mum about how much the whole the truck itself weighs. This is important because a heavier truck means more trucks to compensate for reduced truck capacity. Walmart doesn't want less stuff shipped just because the truck carries less stuff, after all. My concerns are even worse with semitrucks, because semitrucks do a lot of damage and pay very little for it in the terms of gas and usage taxes. An EV semitruck will be a complete free-rider when it comes to gas tax (they'll still pay for usage tax), representing an even larger transfer of wealth from the state to trucking companies than what already exists.