The best selling trucks in America, the F150 and the Chevy Silverado, are lighter than a Tesla S.
Trucks are such horrible deadly things for cities and should be either banned or prohibitively taxed for anyone who doesn't need them.
https://insidescience.org/index.php/news/how-much-damage-do-...
https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...
Even so, the goal here is to spend the resources to permit movement of goods and people... not to limit traffic to those vehicle types that do the least damage to the road. The road is there to be used, not admired.
If you really want 0 damage, work toward legalizing hovercraft on national highways.
Why on earth do you think it's ok to compare the damage done by industrial freight vehicles to personal transportation?
Regenerative braking helps reduce the extra energy cost of this quite a bit by recycling a decent percentage of the kinetic energy you put into moving that big heavy thing.
The weight does have some safety and handling benefits under some conditions but it does probably do more road damage.
As EVs grow states will probably have to charge a “road fee” or something, but it will still be far less costly than gasoline fuel and all the extra maintenance an ICE requires.
Rednecks will stop scoffing at EVs once they find out what instant full torque means. Days worth of on site power for job sites or camping without generator noise is also pretty badass.