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What is more concerning is trucks going down the highways. They are allowing electric trucks to be heavier without reducing their velocity accordingly.The externalities of those white elephants are only just beginning to rear their ugly heads.
Far more weight on our highways as well. Our roads and highways were not built for these heavier cars. No gas and they pay nothing for the maintenance of those highways.Add this to the list of issues with EVs. They are so much heavier than ICE vehicles, they may have already contributed to the collapse of some old parking garages. The average EV weighs over 1000 pounds more than an equivalent size ICE vehicle. In Truck EVs it's closer to 2000 pounds heavier per vehicle.
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EV cars weight is adding stress to old parking garages and may have already caused collapses.
Assuming an added 1000 pounds in batteries for every EV car times about 500 to 1000 cars per average garage is an additional 500,000 to 1,000,000 pounds or about 500 tons or more of weight these garages were never intended to support.
500 tons of battery material just in one garage that all had to be mined out of the Earth that didn't have to before.
Sure are saving the planet.
Now this is a good reason to dislike EVs. The pollution is serious. But since that pollution is localized and far away, people don't care.
Some EVs are far heavier than ICE vehicles. Most are not. My Suburban is heavier than a Tesla Model S.
That's like saying your doghouse in the back yard is not heavier that your people house.
They are different things.
Been there, done that.Not entirely different. Both are passenger vehicles. Both the Tesla and the Suburban use public roads, parking decks and crash into guard rails.
If there needs to be a weight limit, then pass laws concerning weight limits.
EVs still less environmental impact than ICE.People don't realize that in carrying the capacity to store all the electric current needed to drive an automobile around at highway speed for hundreds of miles amounts to massive amounts of chemical energy needing vast amounts of precious and semi-precious metals strip-mined from all around the planet (often with slave and child labor) times 8 billion people. And when something is in high demand, it always drives up the cost.
Then there is the question of producing all the additional electricity then transmitting it everywhere to support it all. Much of that requiring vast amounts of additional mining.
The ecological cost is unfathomable.
Saving the planet my ass.
Assuming an added 1000 pounds in batteries for every EV car times about 500 to 1000 cars per average garage is an additional 500,000 to 1,000,000 pounds or about 500 tons or more of weight these garages were never intended to support.
500 tons of battery material just in one garage that all had to be mined out of the Earth that didn't have to before.
Sure are saving the planet.
Shame on you for driving that gas guzzler.Some EVs are far heavier than ICE vehicles. Most are not. My Suburban is heavier than a Tesla Model S.
Hilariously funny. An electric car adds no more weight than buying a Ford F-150 over a Teslar. We have to live with the fire hazard of gasoline, the pollution and the degradation of our roads and surrounding structures due to gasoline and oil spillage from the ice engine. Where are your complaints about that ? ….do you know how toxic motor oil is that drips on your garage floor or gets into your ground water ? Nah, didn’t think so.There's not enough EVs to really make a significant difference, IMO. I mean if every single fucking car was a, EV, that's one thing, it would be a huge weight difference, but the reality is that very few cars are EVs.
Modern concrete and steel parking garages are already redundantly designed.
Hilariously funny. An electric car adds no more weight than buying a Ford F-150 over a Teslar.
Compare apples to apples, jackass.
Plus they’re tearing up roads and not paying gas taxes to repair them.Add this to the list of issues with EVs. They are so much heavier than ICE vehicles, they may have already contributed to the collapse of some old parking garages. The average EV weighs over 1000 pounds more than an equivalent size ICE vehicle. In Truck EVs it's closer to 2000 pounds heavier per vehicle.
There is a also problem from leaking petroleum damaging roads and concrete. So, No foolish. there are comparably few EV trucks on the road foolish…..of Course, all the pollution in a garage caused by the ice engine is much worse foolish. Teslar weights much less than a Ford F-150 and doesn’t pollute You’re funny….simpleton but funny.
5.2L V8 2024 F-150 curb weight = 5,757 lbs.
Electric 2024 F-150 curb weight = 6,893 lbs.
2024 Tesla Cybertruck curb weight =6603 lbs.
