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the vehicle is 1.8T (~ 4000lbs), we don't "need more like this" it can be electric all it wants, it's still way oversized and that has a terrible environmental

• dogma1138 2y ago
  Unless you can somehow make batteries weight 1/5th of what they do this is exactly the vehicle we need. A Nissan leaf comes at 1700kg with a smaller battery…
• t0mas88 2y ago
  You can't get EVs with a long range at much lower weight with current technology. Batteries are heavy. The solution if you want smaller/lighter cars is to consider something like a Prius or similar hybrid. Those weigh less and can still drive 80% of the time electric. But they come with the downsides of having a complex ICE with the maintenance costs that go with it.
• dzhiurgis 2y ago
  > terrible environmental cost It doesn’t. Env cost is burning fuel. Everything else doesn’t matter.