Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Honda is entering the affordable EV game with this funky new electric car (electrek.co)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (12 children)

small elecric SUV

into the trash it goes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Is it just because the word "SUV" is somehow tainted with evil? Because as I understand it, the main beefs people have with SUVs is that they're big and have poor gas mileage. The "small" and "electric" parts of that description counter those problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

"Small suv" is just a sedan that is brick shaped. Its less aerodynamic, more top heavy, and provides no benefits over a sedan hatchback.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Electric vehicles are very much not top-heavy. They are typically built with the batteries as a platform along the bottom, lowering their centers of gravity significantly. If anything this has become somewhat of a problem, road barriers aren't designed with such low centers of gravity in mind and testing has shown that some EVs tend to go under barriers when they hit them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

You asked for the beef of small suvs. So e-suvs solved one of the issues.

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