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Re:Cybertruck Launch by roflyear on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @06:55PM (#38467184)
And you'll pay a lot more in taxes to maintain the roads: "an increase in axle weight from 18,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds causes 50 percent more damage to the pavement."

See: https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/mayjun-2009/exploring-....

It's massive!

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Re:Cybertruck Launch by owenpalmer on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @07:07PM (#38467325)
Wow that's crazy!
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Re:Cybertruck Launch by quickthrowman on Thursday November 30, 2023 @12:51PM (#38476544)
Yeah, the formula for road damage is a very fast growing function

((vehicle weight^4)/number of axles)

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Re:Cybertruck Launch by morsch on Thursday November 30, 2023 @05:28PM (#38480091)
Just tax them by the same formula and watch cars getting smaller and smaller. And getting more axles I suppose.
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Re:Cybertruck Launch by roflyear on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:24AM (#38488505)
If the world did work that way it would be nice, lol. I imagine such a proposal in the US would be met with "we're trying to destroy the EV industry!!!!"
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Re:Cybertruck Launch by k7sune on Thursday November 30, 2023 @12:59PM (#38476658)
I also think as heavier electric cars become more ubiquitous, they will impose a threat on structures like multi level garages that weren’t designed to take this amount of weight.
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