Re:Manganese could be the secret behind truly mass-market EVs
by formerkrogemp on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @09:13AM
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As long as the number of hummers is small, I don't think it's a problem. As more electric, heavy vehicles come on the road, road maintenance may not keep pace. A lot of county and rural roads have very low maintenance until heavy vehicles constantly drive up and down them.
Regarding an electric bus, more people who might otherwise drive a shitty old car would ride in a bus if we're available. Each of those people isn't driving a 1-4 ton vehicle on the road. The net benefit of buses are greater than hummers.
I doubt we'll adapt to electric cars fast enough anyways to avoid 3+ degrees of warming.
If the road can handle the bus it won't notice the hummer.
The electric hummer is going to be in the same weight ballpark as a loaded plumber's van. It's really a non-issue. Even if the is only built to handle infrequent medium duty truck traffic (some very small rural back road) vehicles of 10k or less are of no consequence.