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Heavier cars are more dangerous in collisions. The extra weight of a big battery requires a bigger frame to carry it, bigger suspension, wider tires, and so on
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
Heavier cars are more dangerous in collisions.
The extra weight of a big battery requires a bigger frame to carry it, bigger suspension, wider tires, and so on.
I’m not really happy that some of these monster EVs are approaching 10,000lbs with fast 0-60 times. It’s like a kinetic missile that can reach a momentum capable of obliterating your average 3000lb compact car in under 5 seconds.
- lazide 4y agoThat is pretty much the definition of moving the goal posts?
- jgtrosh 4y agoThere can be multiple reasons for heavy cars to be bad. Additionally, extra heavy cars wear roads much faster. It's nice to have a way of recuperating energy but it doesn't solve everything.
- _a_a_a_ 4y agoThey didn't say it solved everything
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoActually if I follow the conversation, the first person said “storage density matters”. The second person said “actually it does not because the energy gets recovered”. The follow up said “actually there are other reasons why weight is a problem.” So the first person never set goal posts around efficiency, that was an assumption by the second person. The first person could always have meant that the collision risks from heavier vehicles are higher, while the second person misunderstood their meaning. No moving of goalposts here.
- entropicgravity 4y agoIn the not too distant future cities will ban large vehicles EV and ICE from the downtown core. The automotive market will then split into small city cars and bigger highway cars. In the city core roads will be covered (because no poisonous exhaust gases).