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Why? compare the weight of SUVs or trucks. It's more than the battery weight, so better hope for smaller vehicles.
by quonn 4y ago
Why? compare the weight of SUVs or trucks. It's more than the battery weight, so better hope for smaller vehicles.
- DangitBobby 4y agoI hope for smaller vehicles as well. It's hard to separate "big" and "heavy" statistically because they are highly correlated, but in general, heavier vehicles means higher likelihood of fatality in a crash 1. I suppose we will be doing a natural experiment to tease out the difference over the years as heavy EVs become more commonplace and pedestrian fatalities continue to increase. > It’s also about weight. Trucks today averaging around 5200 pounds -- that’s a jump of more than a half ton since 2000. And things get heavier as electric vehicles look to become our new normal. > On average electric vehicles are 10 percent heavier than gas powered cars. For instance, the new electric Hummer weighs in at a staggering 9,100 pounds or more than 4 and a half tons. All that weight can have deadly consequences. Researchers have found that for every 1,000 pounds a car puts on, a pedestrian is nearly 50 percent more likely to die if they’re hit and the more a truck weighs the longer it will take to stop. 1. https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2022/08/08/size-does-matter-as-trucks-and-suvs-get-bigger-more-pedestrians-are-being-killed/ https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2022/08/08/size-does-mat...