If you put the same tires on a 3k lb car as a 4k lb car and drive exactly the same, the 4k lb car will wear them quicker. Trust I’m no stranger to high power cars burning tires up, that’s not what I’m talking about lol. And it was just one example. If you have 2 cars with same kwh batteries, but one is lighter, which is going further? This is basic physics to the point of bordering on common sense. I absolutely love the torque of EV cars and I can see how it would be hard to stay off the skinny pedal on a merge lol. The aptera looks freaking awesome and is imo sort of the next evolution of things. Simply, the lighter you make a transportation device, the less energy it takes to move. Humans are a pretty insignificant part of the weight of a car, the vehicle is mainly trying to move itself and with or without a driver in it would have quite similar range. The easier you make it to move the vehicle, the faster and further they will go. I think that this threads conflating my critique of battery weight for saying EVs are bad, which I’m not. I’m simply saying the energy density of batteries per lb is pretty far away from fuel right now, and as that gap closes with newer battery tech the argument for ICE cars gets increasingly more feeble. I personally am waiting for batteries to get LIGHT and CHEAP enough to make 200 mile range motorcycles an affordable and viable option for me! We are damned close and I think the future of electric transport is going to be awesome. I’d love to have a small array of pannels on my roof to charge an EV and never have to worry about spending a buck on range, and simplify my maintinence to making sure the tires have tread and none of the suspension components are falling off from getting after it on the dirt roads here LOL. My gas car doesn’t ask for too many parts but of the repairs it has needed in the last 2 years, maybe 1/3rd of the components even exist on an EV.
If you put the same tires on a 3k lb car as a 4k lb car and drive exactly the same, the 4k lb car will wear them quicker. Trust I’m no stranger to high power cars burning tires up, that’s not what I’m talking about lol. And it was just one example. If you have 2 cars with same kwh batteries, but one is lighter, which is going further? This is basic physics to the point of bordering on common sense. I absolutely love the torque of EV cars and I can see how it would be hard to stay off the skinny pedal on a merge lol. The aptera looks freaking awesome and is imo sort of the next evolution of things. Simply, the lighter you make a transportation device, the less energy it takes to move. Humans are a pretty insignificant part of the weight of a car, the vehicle is mainly trying to move itself and with or without a driver in it would have quite similar range. The easier you make it to move the vehicle, the faster and further they will go. I think that this threads conflating my critique of battery weight for saying EVs are bad, which I’m not. I’m simply saying the energy density of batteries per lb is pretty far away from fuel right now, and as that gap closes with newer battery tech the argument for ICE cars gets increasingly more feeble. I personally am waiting for batteries to get LIGHT and CHEAP enough to make 200 mile range motorcycles an affordable and viable option for me! We are damned close and I think the future of electric transport is going to be awesome. I’d love to have a small array of pannels on my roof to charge an EV and never have to worry about spending a buck on range, and simplify my maintinence to making sure the tires have tread and none of the suspension components are falling off from getting after it on the dirt roads here LOL. My gas car doesn’t ask for too many parts but of the repairs it has needed in the last 2 years, maybe 1/3rd of the components even exist on an EV.