Why are electric cars so heavy?

Batteries are very much heavier compared to gas tanks, for a given range. Worse, they don't get lighter as the car goes a distance. read more

If you do, you know how heavy that sucker is and for an electric vehicle, multiply it many times over. read more

Tesla's extra mile in weight reduction (aluminum body and all) does not serve to create a super-light car, its foremost purpose is to create a car with acceptable total weight including the battery. My point is that the Model S is not heavy after all, even if you factor out the weight for battery/motor from the EV and the engine's and transmission's weight from the ICE. read more

Instead, he might have noted that if building one thousand electric cars every day was as easy as launching an orbital rocket, Tesla would be doing it already. Read next: China and Europe love SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket. read more