Weight of electric vehicles could cause 'catastrophic' damage and 'lead to car parks collapsing': Engineers warn Britain's parking facilities were not designed for hulking battery cars

Daily Mail ^ | 12/18/22 | Isolde Walters

[GingisK]

Over the river and through the bridge, to grandmother’s house we go...

[SgtHooper]

If that is the case, then these EV peeps need to be charged road taxes just like trucks!

[Billyv]

DUH!........

[Chickensoup]

Only if you let it

[I want the USA back]

This will be forgotten, but it will come true.

[SaxxonWoods]

A Tesla weighs 4,400? My F-150 weighs 4,800. I think I’ll stay out of parking garages.

[citizen]

There’s something I’m not clear on. EVs have a huge, heavy battery - but they have no IC engine or radiator. Is the weight of an EV electric motor comparable to the weight of an IC engine and the associated components?

It must be about the same or else some of an IC battery weight - and hence some of the weight concerns - would be offset.

[Gay State Conservative]

Where will the power come from? Where will the lithium come from? Where can these beasts be parked in big cities?

[citizen]

Plz see my #47. What do you think? Cause I don’t know.

[BobL]

“There’s something I’m not clear on. EVs have a huge, heavy battery - but they have no IC engine or radiator. Is the weight of an EV electric motor comparable to the weight of an IC engine and the associated components?”

Lithium Ion is, by far, the most efficient battery-based energy storage medium available for surface vehicles. But to have a decent range, it still takes a huge quantity of the batteries and thus a HUGE weight. I have no clue if their car parks will collapse, but if they do, they certainly weren’t built with much margin for heavier vehicles.

[citizen]

...GMC Hummer EV...The Edition 1 version, which has lots of batteries for additional driving range and power, weighs over 9,000 pounds. That’s roughly three times the weight of a Honda Civic.
...The Ford F-150 Lightning will weigh about 1,600 pounds more than a similar gas-powered F-150 truck.

1,600 additional pounds for a light-duty truck is significant.

[PAR35]

Tesla Model 3 weighs 2.2 tons fully loaded

So, about the same as a Ford F-150? (4,069 to 5,697 pounds)

[NWFree]

They should be charged extra for tearing up the roads and making it harder for the rest of us to get around

[PAR35]

Or for that matter, a 1964 Lincoln Continental (5055 lbs)

[NWFree]

And their braking distances will suffer from mysterious weights creating more dangerous automobiles but they won’t figure that out till it’s already happening because they’re too stupid to look that far ahead before they jump in with both feet

[NWFree]

Monstrous Weights

[BobL]

“1,600 additional pounds for a light-duty truck is significant.”

Perhaps, but the MESSAGE it sends is FAR MORE significant, which is that the owner CARES and refuses to destroy the environment by driving a gasoline vehicle.

If more people CARED, the world would be a better place (even with car parks collapsing).

[mewzilla]

Deep States, plural, don’t care.

[Tell It Right]

I agree wholeheartedly that EV's are heavier than their ICE counterparts, largely from the battery.

However, I'm having trouble believing today's EV's are heavier than cars from the 1970's (as the article states the standard for car weights were when the parking decks were designed).

[ptsal]

Funny