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But Weight, There’s More: The Achilles Heel of Electric Vehicles

November 2, 2021November 1, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1.21 jiggawatts, autonomous electric vehicles, blake shaffer, car culture, cars, constantine samaras, decarbonization, decarbonizing transportation, dodge ram, Electric cars, electrification, elon musk, EV charging infrastructure, EVs, Ford, ford mustang mach-e, Honda, honda crv, how many kids does elon musk have, hyundai, hyundai ioniq, infrastructure, kilowatt hours per kilometer, kilowatt hours per mile, kwh/km, kwh/mi, maximilian auffhammer, mobility, mpg, mpge, mustang mach-e, power grid, power grids, public ev charger, public ev charging networks, public utilities, Tesla, tesla model 3, tesla model s, tesla model x, thermodynamics, uc berkeley haas, utility companies

Electric cars are generally far more efficient than gas-powered ones, as a matter of thermodynamics. But a new article looks at one huge problem with electric cars, and one that is often entirely disregarded in policy, regulation, and consumer economics, and that’s the factor of how much they weigh.

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