Britain's roads can't keep up with our cars

Re:Britain's roads can't keep up with our cars by wcoenen on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @05:54AM (#37494569)

The weight difference of comparable ICE cars and EVs is sometimes surprisingly small when you look at the variant of the EV model with the smaller battery.

For example, the BMW X3 is 1670 kg. The Tesla Model Y (SR RWD) is 1778 kg.

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Re:Britain's roads can't keep up with our cars by oblio on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:05AM (#37494672)

That's only for big cars.

The smallest Tesla is a D-segment car, cars around 4.7m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-segment

There are 3 different car categories smaller than the smallest Tesla.

For smaller cars, EVs are a mess, they're between 25 and 40% heavier than equivalent ICEs, that's a humongous difference.

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