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>The curb weight of the most popular vehicle in the USA, the Ford F-150

It's worth noting that even though the "most popular vehicle" is a pickup truck, pickup trucks aren't the most popular type of car on the road, making up for less than 20% of vehicles.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276506/change-in-us-car-...

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EVs account for 1% of vehicles, and only 7.6% of new cars. If trucks haven’t been a major issue at 20% of the vehicle population, making a big deal out of EVs seems a bit overblown.

https://www.edmunds.com/electric-car/articles/percentage-of-...

Does this also mean they don’t care about semi trucks going through guardrails? Semi trucks account for 10% of highway miles traveled, which is also more than EVs.

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freigh...

But we're forecasting growth in all EV bands. The average vehicle weight will double in the next 30 years.

It does make sense to start thinking and talking about this now (before that happens) so we can fix it.

That's a bit disingenuous when SUVs are another 40% of the market, making ~60% of vehicles sold still the size and weight of trucks, with or without beds.

"SUVs" include crossovers, and they're by far more popular than truck based SUVs. The best selling SUVs (and crossovers) is the Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V, and Nissan Rogue, all of which top out at around 3500 lb.

https://www.kbb.com/best-cars/most-popular-suvs/

It is still a lot

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