Quote Originally Posted by westcountryvillain View Post
There's a school of thought now that electric vehicles due to their weight are causing environmental problems due to heavier breaking forces and tyre usage. China was about to flood the market with cheaper vehicles fitted with lighter batteries, the powers that be don't want the Chinese having so much impact on the economy plus it threatens Tesla's dominance of the market.....
Isn't there also some concern regarding their weight on older multi-storey car parks? Many of these were constructed in the late 60s and 70s when most vehicles were considerably smaller and lighter than modern cars. May be a myth but surely, at the time, these car parks were designed to bear the weight of x amount of cars at y average weight. Don't expect that the current small percentage of electric vehicles using them makes much odds, but if all cars that use them become heavier electric ones?