Full of fat: 11 electric cars weighing more than 2.5 tons

Interesting news has been doing the rounds recently: because electric cars tend to be heavier, older parking garages can pose a safety risk. In other words, older parking garages could collapse under the weight of electric vehicles.

While this headline is certainly quite salacious, it addresses a trend that has been visible for decades and has been kicked up a notch since the advent of electric vehicles: Modern cars are heavy as hell.

When parking garages were built in the 1970s, the average family car weighed just under a ton. Today, the current VW Golf GTi (depending on equipment) is about twice as heavy as the first generation Golf GTi.

And with electric cars, everything has become even more blatant. So that the driver no reach fear (it’s one thing), manufacturers are building bigger and bigger batteries in their cars – especially in the higher purchase class. The result: cars that weigh as much as trucks used to.

Here are some of the heaviest electric cars available on the market in 2023:
_{(Heavy EVs…hEVys hihi…oh I don’t.)}

This PV weighs more than most SUVs, namely:

Tadaa! But that is less than the following cars:

In short, for comparison: cars weigh 1000 kg or less are usually included Ultra compact class (or they are highly specialized lightweight sports cars like Lotus Elise and the like).
The compact class is rated as average 1.4 tons.
The middle class arrives at the 1.7 tons.
averages around 2 tons apply to the Higher class and for luxury SUVs.

For comparison: one Mercedes GLC 300 weighs – depending on equipment – between 1900 and 2415 kilos.

For comparison: The Ford F-150 with combustion engine weighs – depending on model and equipment – between 1800 and 2270 kilos.

And now:

na? How much does he weigh…?

For comparison: The Lobster H1 (more or less a military tool used in the the nineties approved for civilian use) weighed a whopping lot 3.6 tons.
Cancer H2 (2003): 3 tons
Lobster H3 (2006): 2000 – 2223 kilos

However, the increase in weight of electric cars is only the continuation of a trend that has been visible since the 1990s: crash safety, electronic assistance systems and water-cooled engines have led to an increase in weight. Add to this the decades-long sales success of SUVs, which are already heavy monsters in terms of concept. This (and this is certainly the more acute problem than any aging car park) naturally negated any technical advances regarding the economy of internal combustion engines, as these more energy-efficient drive systems today have to carry a lot more weight, which in turn leads to higher consumption . Economics calls it that Jevons paradox: Technological advances that allow more efficient use of a resource will increase rather than decrease the use of that resource.

The first units of this ultra-luxury car, the first electric car from Rolls-Royce, will be delivered at the end of this year.

And? How much is this streamlined two-door coupe likely to flip?

So …

… tada!