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And you'll pay a lot more in taxes to maintain the roads: "an increase in axle weight from 18,000 pounds to 20,000 pounds causes 50 percent more damage to the pavement."

See: https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/mayjun-2009/exploring-....

It's massive!

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Wow that's crazy!

I also think as heavier electric cars become more ubiquitous, they will impose a threat on structures like multi level garages that weren’t designed to take this amount of weight.

Yeah, the formula for road damage is a very fast growing function

((vehicle weight^4)/number of axles)

Just tax them by the same formula and watch cars getting smaller and smaller. And getting more axles I suppose.

If the world did work that way it would be nice, lol. I imagine such a proposal in the US would be met with "we're trying to destroy the EV industry!!!!"

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