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On the flip side they're heavy and tear up the roads a lot more than lighter vehicles: https://eos.org/articles/road-dust-a-health-hazard-hidden-in-plain-sight

• nate_meurer 5y ago
  It doesn't really make that much difference. The vast majority of road wear is caused by commercial rigs [1]. Road wear from passenger vehicles is small in comparison, and the comparatively small increases in EV weight won't do much to change that. Even with a few hundred extra kilos of batteries in an EV, an empty tractor-trailer weighs at least five times more [2]. 1 - https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-industry-subsidy/ https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-indu... 2 - https://www.tcsfuel.com/blog/truck-weight-classification/ https://www.tcsfuel.com/blog/truck-weight-classification/