Re:Tesla's team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
by Peanuts99 on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:14AM
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Difference between a petrol and electric Volvo XC40 is about 200KGs, so not insignificant but not as much as it's sometimes portrayed. EVs built from the ground-up may be able to knock a few of those KGs off too as they won't have structures designed for ICE components.
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Re:Tesla's team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
by roelschroeven on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:48AM
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According to carsized.com an ICE Volvo XC40 (not sure whether that's a plug-in hybrid, probably not) weighs 1580 kg, while the BEV one weighs 2040 kg. That's a difference of almost 500 kg. The BEV weighs almost 30% more, that seems pretty significant to me.
Batteries are heavy!
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/volvo-xc40-2017-suv...