Electric vehicles are too heavy, so goes the chant from certain members of the press. Not only that, but electric vehicle weight is a huge problem for roads, for safety, for all our infrastructure. It's insoluble! We should just keep driving gas cars...

...only that's not the case, but there is something here that we need to discuss. Why do cars keep getting heavier, what does that mean for everyone using the roads, and what can we do about it?

00:00 - Open 00:44 - Introduction 03:32 - Weight trends 03:22 - Road surface damage 05:40 - Modern cars comparison 06:03 - Impacts of increased weight 07:46 - Safety of larger vehicles 09:22 - Infrastructure impacts 11:43 - What impacts do heavier vehicles have on EVs? 14:07 - How can we break this pattern? 16:50 - Conclusions 17:45 - Thanks and Credits

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Script: Kate Walton-Elliott, Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield Presenter: Kate Walton-Elliott
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