• Soup@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Except their weight which leads to insane amounts of energy transfer and also none of the intrastructure, like guardrails, is built to handle that much weight so low down.

    The way to safer is to reduce the amount of cars.

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      1 day ago

      Next best thing to improving public transport to reduce the ammouny of cars would be reducing the size of cars, thus in large part negating the weight issue.

      But like you said, nothing beats just having fewer cars on the road.

      • A7thStone@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, no.

        This is a golf compared to an id.3. Two very comparable vehicles. The id.3 weighs 41% more. Don’t get me wrong I’d love to be able to get an id.3 but all we get in the states are these horrible SUVs. That said EVs do still suffer a major weight penalty that comes with its own issues.

      • Soup@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Not even a little bit, and I’d say “but good effort” but really no, not even that.