Comment Re:EVs are not a solution beacuse of (Score 1) 250
Exactly. Your choice of car style is far more important for weight than whether it's EV or ICE. A big ICE SUV or truck is going to be heavier than most EVs. In the UK say, a Range Rover Sport is heavier than all but the beefiest EVs.
As it happens, I went from a Skoda Octavia to a Skoda Enyaq. It's a bulkier car (longer/taller/wider), and funnily enough it's heavier, but it's kerb weight is remarkably similar to the ICE Skoda Kodiaq, which is only a little physically bigger.
In denser countries like the UK, you need to wean people off the idea they need 500 miles of range, as with current battery tech, we waste a whole lot of weight lugging around bigger batteries than we need. But for now, with people overly bothered about ra