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My 2016 Challenger is 4200 lbs whereas my Tesla Model S is 4500 lbs. Hardly a large enough difference to matter, especially when you consider I had a Ram 3500 which is 7500 lbs. Even most SUV's are heavier than my Tesla so I wonder why weight gets brought up.
Challengers are very heavy cars (which is why they aren't great sports cars :p haha) something like a civic is between 2800-3000 lbs.
They're certainly heavier than a Civic but much lighter than most trucks. Being RWD and having almost 500BHP, it's also a tire eater so I go through tires much quicker than I expected and as such, it'll pollute more than my Tesla in several ways.
The more weight on the tires, the faster they wear out. And tire dust is indeed emissions, not all vehicle emissions come from the exhaust pipe.
Also having so much power and being RWD, they go through tires faster than most cars so it's doubly more polluting.