• DarkThoughts
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    24 months ago

    Sounds only bad for people driving obese cars, which is good from my perspective.

    • @JaymesRS
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      84 months ago

      EVs are significantly heavier than ICE cars. That’s why this is a problem. The Rivian R1S is over 8,000 lbs.

      • zeekaran
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        54 months ago

        The Rivian is absurd. What percent of Americans can even afford one? And what percent need one? This is why a tax on weight would be effective.

        • @MinorLaceration@lemmy.world
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          24 months ago

          Sure the R1s are large, but R2 and R3 are much more reasonably sized and are planned to be lower priced. It seems that these new EV companies like to go with fewer of their higher end cars in the beginning to fund the production of the larger volume, more economic models later.

      • DarkThoughts
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        4 months ago

        No, electric SUVs and other obese models are heavier. There’s plenty of EVs that are lighter than ICE cars.

          • DarkThoughts
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            14 months ago

            I mean, I never talked about just EVs. ICEs also have become way too big and consequently heavy over the decades. As far as I’m concerned, fuck cars in general.