> The old reason for driving a smaller car/truck depending where you live the main reason was and still is fitting in the streets and finding parking spots. I

> The old reason for driving a smaller car/truck depending where you live the main reason was and still is fitting in the streets and finding parking spots. I mean sure large parts of the US are designed not only car centric but also with not only focus on large cars but even wants to make driving them extra easy. But that's not at all the case in the EU. Like there are many places with streets where driving a large US cars is troublesome or outright impossible and parking spots are all the time at least slightly too small for many US cars. Similar there are many place with no or very limited dedicated parking ares, mainly at the side of the street and the larger your car the more spots you will not fit in or fit in but it's hard to enter them without touching surrounding cars or similar. > largely disappears for electric vehicles which many people still don't want, because if you don't have your own parking spot (very common in the EU) then charging gets much more complicated > In fact, electric vehicles are larger/heavier than ic equivalents. Heavier yes, but there are small and compact EVs, through often with quite limited reach and mainly advertised to/sold in countries with a lot of small streets.