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-SUVs aside, do keep in mind EVs are quite heavy compared to their ICE counterparts, too. (On the upside, I guess they, being newer, involve more passive safety for whatever they run into).

For instance, my 20 year old Land Cruiser (Which I, perhaps engaging in a bit of semantic pedantry would call a 4x4, not a SUV) has a dry weight of pretty much 2 tons / 4,500lbs.

A Nissan Leaf? 1,600kg/3,500lbs. (Tiny compared to the LC)

Tesla Model S? 1,950-2,300kg / 4,300-5,000lbs (Still small compared to the LC)



Height above the ground matters too: high cars hit pedestrians more on the chest, lower cars hit the legs.

And high cars can roll over lower cars, making the deformation zone have no effect.

Interesting anyway about weight.

I'm thinking high cars should be forbidden ... Unless in terrain on the countryside.


EVs could be regulated (or incentivized) downards too, there exist much lighter EVs already.

In Europe there are some sub-500 kg cars (eg Renault Twitzy). Not that this should be the limit necessarily, but there's plenty of room downwards in the design space.




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