EV Weight Concerns
The cluster centers on discussions about the heavier weight of electric vehicles compared to ICE counterparts, mainly due to batteries, and its impacts on efficiency, safety, road wear, range, and infrastructure.
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Why? compare the weight of SUVs or trucks. It's more than the battery weight, so better hope for smaller vehicles.
It's related to vehicle weight, electric cars can be significantly heavier.
Reducing battery weight has a few advantages. Your car is lighter. This means less weight on the road, and thus less road maintenance. Or less batteries in the system, meaning it is cheaper. And safer because mass times velocity = momentum. Right now electric vehicles are substantially heavier than their ICE counterparts. (A Model 3 has a curb weight comparable to a F150)
How much does motor weight matter in a modern long-range EV, vs battery weight?
EVs come with a mandatory increase in vehicle weight (for equal range), no?
EVs are quite heavy for their footprint due to the weight of the batteries.
EVs are not double the weight of comparable ICE vehicles. Yes, they are heavier -- but not 100% heavier.
Batteries are the bottleneck.Even if motors were literally weightless and mass-less, EVs would weigh more than ICE cars.It's like making a more efficient CPU for your phone when all the power is eaten up by the cell-modem, screen and RAM. People wonder where the practical battery life gains are and theyre miniscule in practice
Batteries are heavy. It is not immediately clear to me that the overall vehicle would be lighter.
I heard EVs are very heavy, how can they be faster?