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The average American automobile now weighs over 2 tonnes and takes up almost 5 square meters of space. (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 5 days ago (1 child)

The graphs are terrible but come on, a 10% increase in weight in 10 years, doesn't sound bad to you? Especially when the base value was anything but low to begin with? And an increased space consumption of 6% is a huge additional space consumption in absolute numbers, given the huge numbers of cars.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    The weight gain could theoretically be explained by the simple fact that electric vehicles are heavier than their combustion counterpart.

    Though I'm well aware these are american cars so probably just means more bigger pickup trucks that will never ever be used to actually pick things up.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Hardly, the EV adoption rate in the US is pretty poor and even if we ignore that, the share of EVs among existing vehicles on the road is way to small to be the dominating factor for the increase in weight. That said, yes, EVs will lead to an increase in weight, a necessary evil. However, that can be compensated by downscaling vehicles to actual needs. People are currently buying cars far larger than what they actually need for partly irrational and partly egoistic reasons (increasing threats to life and well being towards others in the hope to slightly decrease it towards oneself).

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