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I hate that this is becoming the norm (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Yeah nah as time goes by it’ll go the other way. Batteries will get lighter as tech improves.

The argument going on about this reminds me of what my grandmother told me about the horse to car transition. Pretty much all the same stuff, including how big they were in comparison to a horse.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    But people keep buying bigger cars. We are able to build small cars it's just that almost no one is buying them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah you’re right it sucks. It’s mainly from what I can see, governments building legislation that gives tax breaks for these cars like happens here in Oz or manufacturers using politics to shut out especially smaller and trade EVs from over seas.

    You’re right though, however you are

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Well for now BEVs are still much heavier than ICE vehicles. It will take decades for them to finally become lighter than ICE vehicles.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Well for now BEVs are still much heavier than ICE vehicles.

    only in the US, where people love tanks and can't do math so they need to carry around 2000lbs of batteries.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Err... Batteries aren't exactly made of air elsewhere in the world either. BMW i4 is 2100 KG empty for the small battery single motor version, 2300 for bigger battery dual motor AWD. 440i with AWD is 1835.

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