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Something important to consider with regards to weight and road damage, damage is proportional to weight to the fourth power. A little extra weight means a lot more wear. This is also why we should be shipping most things by train, as trucks are absolutely annihilating the roads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
Yeah, and it comes up a lot when people say EVs aren't paying their fair share and should have increased registration costs. The biggest hit on road maintenance is big trucks, and it's not even close. We are all subsidizing this industry.
Diesel cars are 50kg heavier than EVs in general (maybe I can find the study again) and they've increased the most since 2012 in weight gained
Plus they always give as an example, that e-hummer that weighs 9,000 lbs. that just shouldn’t exist. Meanwhile most EVs are 1/3 that weight
It's 9000 pounds and is faster than 90s supercars. It's complete lunacy, and I'm actually quite scared of how much more dangerous it's going to make driving.
Yep. No one wants ro talk about a real weight tax, because if they charged trucks their proportional share, shipping costs would go through the roof.
But what if we moved them onto a separate road, made of metal?
Thay would be crazy, they would all be running at different intervals. You would need some system to link all the cars together, with a singular engine. An Onomotive or something like that, we can figure out the name later.
A bicycle can't move without someone sitting on it pedaling, so I think it's fair to include the weight of the rider.