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Your electric car questions answered: “Are multistorey car parks designed for heavy electric vehicles ?”: Dave Bergin, via LinkedIn, asked.
The fact that this story began in certain UK-based newspapers should perhaps have been a sufficient warning that it was most likely alt-conservative nonsense and merely a way to bash electric cars in a public forum. That said, there is perhaps a justifiable concern as the weight of our cars balloons – batteries being much heavier for a given energy level than liquid fuel – our car parks might start to strain under the heft.
It’s more outlying models – such as the US-only Hummer EV, which weighs a frankly stupid 4.5-tonnes, 1.5-tonnes of which is the battery – which create a narrative that all electric cars are giants. Yes, the Hummer is pointlessly big and heavy, but it’s also massively expensive and will only sell in relatively small numbers.
That “reduction of safety factors” is the only kicker in all of this. Although it’s incredibly unlikely that a troop of hefty EVs all parking up at once will trigger a catastrophic car park collapse, it is likely that a constant in-and-out flow of such vehicles might make for faster wear-and-tear on car park surfaces and structures, requiring owners and operators to pay more attention to maintenance and repair.
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