Depends on the road. I managed to get some local potholes fixed. The tractors went over OK - tyres bridged the gaps - low PSI , but the seemingly unsprung trailers full of toms of straw were definitely doing real damage.
Of course I was only teasing, but yes, EVs ARE causing more road damage in cities where HGVs are banned
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I wasn't being serious either. Just making a point that EVs do not have the sun shining out of their battery vents
And it's not as if EVs are especially heavy in absolute terms, just a bit heavier than a same-size petrol. My Renault 5 is about the same mass as a mid-range Ford Focus. I suspect as a general rule that EVs are about as heavy as the next size up of petrol/diesel, so nothing exceptional.
At the bottom end, a city EV such the Dacia Spring is under a tonne.
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what is more telling is tyre pressures. that represents the actual contact pressure onto the road surface.
HGVs run over 100psi...
As do 'racing' bikes...
Since you mentioned tractors TNP .. what about the Standard Farm Tractor of
2026, now? About 20 feet high and just a little bit _wider_ than the Standard Ancient Byway in any rural English area? And often pulling a slurry trailer or a haybale trailer just as big, and wide, but longer?Eh?
Fondly, Another John
*shrug* cars are wider too.
What about it?
They have work to do. We move out of the way.
Local contractors for Balfour Beaty, laying replacment road gully drain covers+surrounds plus sewer manhole covers+surrounds henpecking old surface and resurfacing. I did not see them setting in the gully+manhole tops but the buckets left behind marked Larsen MBM 534. Only replaced last week but at least one is clattering. All the new manhole lids are split into 2 triangles. So like milkmaids 3 legged stools, I'd have thought they were immune to rocking ,unlike rectangular ones. This topic turned up on ITV Meridian news yesterday at Alton, Hampshire. Apparently none of the utility companies is claiming responsibility for the clattering manholes there, so nothing is done to remedy.
Round my way there are a number of fully electric double decker buses. Goodness knows how much they will weigh when full of passengers.
Northampton has a lot of electric buses and, as buses are about 80% of traffic in the station and other terminal stops, the air is much less contaminated. From a bit of shallow research, looks as if an e-bus empty is about the same weigt as an ICE bus full.
South Yorkshire has just announced 80% electric buses over the next 5 years. Good.
The difference in London is huge. Having lived there 20 years I really notice.
Air pollution was a big reason for my buying an EV.
I think a rule of thumb is EVs are 10% heavier.
Indeed. The experience will serve as a salutary example to other councils
Southend on Sea council purchased an electric (battery) train to run along the mile and a third long pier. It was delivered in 2021 and is still wrapped in plastic shrink wrap on one of the platforms 5 years later. The diesel train is still running.
In no way related to buses and off topic for this newsgroup but don't assume that any council knows what it's doing when green washing.
Well, apparently one crashed in 2024 and the investigation is still ongoing.
Or playing at climate deniers.
You stripped the context in replying btw.
...or indeed at any other time, really
Along with 'transgender' people..
Must've learnt it from you
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