I already answered you. It's a well-established fact that heavier vehicles cause more damage than lighter vehicles.
Yes, and the heaviest vehicles out there are semis, 10 times the weight of pretty much all cars and light trucks. As your own article stated, it is those vehicles that are the heavy vehicles that cause the problem.
That is completely irrelevant. The salient point is that heavier vehicles cause greater road wear. That is not debatable.
So why do you keep debating it by claiming it is EVs, when they are only slightly more heavy, not 10 times the weight.
The fact remains that if you buy an equivalent EV, it will ALWAYS be heavier. For example, the Ford F-150 Lighting is about 35% heavier than its Ford F-150 ICE counterpart, as just one example.
No, it is currently heavier. We'll see what happens in the next decade, as batteries become more energy dense.
And, no, the Lightning is not 35% heavier than than an F-150 ICE counterpart. At most it is 25%, though even then you are comparing a lower trim level (and much less power) to a higher trim EV. Yes, there is a slightly lighter F-150 but it is a regular cab, 2-wheel drive with a 2.7L engine (325 HP) that does not compare to any version of the Lightning (which are all crew cab, 4-wheel drive, and a minimum of 452 HP. And, as you go up trim levels, the difference is actually smaller between the ICE and the Lightning.
Why are you comparing SUVs to sedans? If you compare mid-sized EVs to their mid-sized ICE counterpart, they will weigh more, every time.
I'm not comparing SUVs to sedans. I'm comparing the cars currently selling the best, which for ICE are things like the F-150 (and other trucks) and large SUVs. As I mentioned, the F-150 Ice is the best selling car in America, with over 300,000 sold per year (and less than 10% of those are Lightning models). When you look at EVs, as people here have previously pointed out, over 50% of the EVs sold in the US each year are the Tesla Model Y and Model 3, which weigh a maximum of about 4,400 lbs and 4,000 lbs -- so less than the F-150 that is the top ICE vehicle.
Also, heavier ICE vehicles use more fuel. Ergo, they already pay far more in road use taxes. The fact that heavier ICE vehicles are less fuel-efficient means that they will pay more in road use taxes because they use more gallons of fuel.
Great, and under the current bill (since we're still waiting to hear the final version) EVs would still pay more than almost all ICE vehicles, including ones far heavier than their EV. Again, EVs would be paying the equivalent of a gas car that gets 12 mpg or less -- and for someone that drives under 10,000 miles per year, it is closer to larger trucks (box trucks when fully loaded) that get 5 mpg, which are definitely far heavier than EVs and cause far more damage to the roadways.
As I already pointed out, the Ford F-150 Lightning is ~35% heavier than its ICE equivalent. People with F-150's are spending FAR more in gas, and therefore are contributing FAR more in road use taxes.
I can't take you seriously when you're trying to compare full-size pickup trucks to passenger cars.
No, again, more like 25% (and less) depending on configuration. And even small, lighter EVs, like the Chevy Bolt, Nissan Leaf, Mini Cooper, Fiat 500e (all around or under 3,500 lbs) would still pay far more in tax than most F-150s on the road today (most of which still tend to get 20 mpg up to even 25 mpg, with the lowest version only about 18 mpg).
And, again, the most popular ICE vehicles sold in the US tend to be quite large -- like the absolutely best selling car being the F-150. Yet, as pointed out, the best selling EVs are much smaller -- with the best selling EVs being mid-sized cars, the Tesla Model 3 sedan and the Tesla Model Y SUV. I can't take you seriously when you try to compare all EVs to the F-150 Lightning, when it is a rather modest selling EV, but its ICE counterpart is absolutely the best selling "car" in the US.
Let me try it this way for you: the number 1 selling "car" last year was the Ford F-series (not just the F-150, but also the F-250 and F-350), so just the F-150 can weigh up to 5,740 in an ICE variant, though the F-350 starts over 6,000 lbs and goes up over 7,700 lbs. The best selling EV was the Tesla Model Y, which is a max of about 4,400 pounds. My point is the best selling ICE "car" is much heavier than the best selling EV.
If we go to the #2 seller, that is the Chevrolet Silverado vs. the Tesla Model 3; so again, we are looking at a truck between 4400 and 5800 lbs vs an EV that has a maximum weight of 4,000 lbs. As you go through the list of best selling cars vs. best selling EVs, you see this repeat over and over. One of the few that aren't that way is when you get to the Toyota RAV4, which is lighter than the Ford Mach E; you also get the Honda CR-V vs. the Hyundai Ioniq 5 but, surprisingly, those two are fairly close in weight. Your issue then is that the next couple of ICE vehicles are the RAM pickup and the GMC Sierra.
Again, the ICE cars selling the most tend to be very heavy, yet there is zero concern of the damage these large pickups are doing to the roads; for some reason it is only brought up when discussing EVs -- not to mention, again, that even your article said the major issue was semi-trucks and trailers (which are 10x heavier than even these pickup trucks). And, again, some of these trucks will pay roughly half in gasoline tax what the Trump administration is trying to get from all EVs, even the light ones and despite how many miles they are driven.
