Yes, the EV batteries are heavy, I undestand that.
My question is how heavy is an EV electric motor, plus associated equipment, as compared to the weight of a complete IC engine system. An EV motor must be heavy but is it as heavy as a gasoline engine? Motors no doubt come in varying sizes, as do engine blocks. I also assume each type of vehicle will have a transmission and/or a transaxle, etc.
I searched, all responses refer to battery weight, which are heavy as we know.
There are so many factors to consider that it’s not meaningful to compare the weights of individual components. What matters is the actual weight of the complete vehicle. Making that comparison more complicated is that not all EVs have comparable ICE models (same general size and design).
One model that comes to mind is the ICE VW Golf and the outwardly identical e-Golf (no longer made).
The e-Golf outweighed its ICE version by about 450 pounds (a 15% increase).