Posted on 02/12/2024 4:55:39 PM PST by bitt
‘Will only increase the probability of failure’
If all of the existing headaches for those pushing expensive electric vehicles on resisting American consumers could vanish, there’s still a big one that may have no ready solution.
Already, it appears the U.S. could end up dependent on unfriendly nations for materials for all those batteries. Then there’s the fact that the nation’s grid simply can’t support all that recharging – California already has been sending out advisories for owners not to charge. And then there’s the limited range, extended recharging times, both worsened by bad weather.
But now a report in the Washington Times explains that those batteries are heavy, and EVs can weight up to 50% more than internal combustion motor vehicles.
And that weight damages roads, bridges and parking garages, with those vehicles easily plowing through safety guardrails while posing a higher danger to other drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists traveling the same routes.
“The problems associated with EVs are poised to grow as more consumers purchase the cars under the Biden administration’s plan to eliminate gas-powered vehicles and the tailpipe emissions that come with them,” the report explained.
It explained engineers writing recently for Structure Magazine suggested construction companies, and building codes, need to make accommodation for the higher weight.
Parking garages, they said, should be redesigned to hold more weight.
That’s because some hold hundreds of vehicles, and just one EV. A Ford truck, weighs in at 8,240 pounds, nearly a ton more than the gas-powered version of the same pickup.
“Significantly increasing passenger vehicle weights combined with recently reduced structural design requirements will result in reduced factors of safety and increased maintenance and repair costs for parking structures,” the engineers wrote. “There are many cases of parking structure failures, and the growing demand for EVs will only increase the probability of failure.”
Then there are those guardrails, installed to minimize damage when traffic goes awry.
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That title is worth repeating.
Movie plot: After many law enforcement and EMT personnel cannot get past the sea of burned out EVs including their own, they confront a city with collapsing parking garages, bridges and overpasses from structural damage caused by the weight of EVS. Burning EVs with trapped people inside them and others dying by electrocution make the crisis scene worse.
Your keyboard has a st-t-t-u-tter. :-)
Did Joe Biden Post This?
That title That title is worth repeating worth repeating
;^)
What’ll we call your movie: Teslanado?
Sounds great.
Our EV crossover weighs about 10% more than the old ICE crossover it replaced, and about 5% less than our ICE pickup. LOL
And almost exactly what my 1974 Lincoln Continental did. LOL
Yes, the left should quit forcing EV's onto people. There is no global warmageddon. But some of our rationale among conservatives is silly. We should stick to the real facts and that's that government has no place deciding what we drive, and that government should stick to only what the Constitution says it can.
I Disagree, we can make this work by Mandating Immediately ALL Public Employee’s Nationwide be prohibited from using or owning an ICE powered vehicle and require ALL of them to either use an EV or Mass Public Transit for ALL travel in perpetuity.
The increased weight of those EV Pigs increase tire wear. EV tires wear out 20% faster and cause increased tire-wear emissions and road-wear particles. That will get worse as drivers transition to EVs. Emissions Analytics found that a single ICE sheds almost nine pounds of tire weight per year, on average. Globally, that amounts to 6 million metric tons of tire pollution annually. Just wait. There will be imposed travel restrictions. No more trips out to Yellowstone.
How the EV can be so efficient, if they have to carry all that dead weight along?
Good grief! Proofreading is our friend.
Great minds....
Florida has enough problems with old condos... this could be a nightmare for old people who like the 'golfcart' feel of an EV...
The laws of physics say that it takes more energy to move a heavier load.
Like most Amerivcans, I 'll take Detroit Iron over battery powered electrics any day.......until they come up with a nuclear fusion generator for automobiles.
Ya Gotta Love that Detroit Iron!
bttt
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