I'm very sympathetic to the idea of lighter vehicles. There's all sorts of pros to them. But realistically unless we're willing to expend the political capita

I'm very sympathetic to the idea of lighter vehicles. There's all sorts of pros to them. But realistically unless we're willing to expend the political capital required to leave everyone who ever gave someone a dirty look over a used car seat or authored breathless hand wringing comments about safety sharing the same hole in the ground it's not happening, at least not in North America. Not only has "the market" chosen big vehicles, but the regulators have picked the same side and are incentivizing big in everything but name. That's not the kind of thing you undo in less than decades and in decades we'll have better batteries so it won't matter.