Heavier Weight of Electric Vehicles Could Cause Car Parks to Collapse

It's not really a problem with EV's as such but the ridiculous move to large SUVs. Many electric vehicles are light and small but we are ending up with electric SUVs that do more damage to roads, block emergency vehicles (SUV's in general) and of course cost more to import and do more damage to our economy. If you are trying to protect the environment, keep your existing vehicle and use it less, instead walk or use a bike or ebike.

It would be so easy for the government to tax such vehicles more excessively and have a tax system for vehicles that starts off at a high rate when new but reduces year by year thereby motivating people to keep their car longer and maybe for large heavy electric SUV's they would not have that reduction in yearly licensing. It makes sense now that we have only a small amount of vehicle manufacturing left to start thinking about policies that will help our economy and the environment at the same time. We need to move to vehicles that only hold one or two people as that is the most common amount of people in car vehicles in use but instead we have single people going around in huge cars that can take up to 7 people. Licensing/tax that reflects the weight of the vehicle and the number of seats should be a priority. You should pay a huge premium for such vehicles.

On a side note I think cars should have a included 7 year warranty. This would penalise unreliable cars which rely on constant repair income like many of the German brands. Those brands would end up at extremely uncompetitive prices and probably leave the UK market or only import more reliable cars which are typically simpler models. Having a long warranty would motivate people to keep their car longer perhaps until the warranty finishes.

On so many levels heavy electric SUVs are bad for our economy.

Oh my gosh. Makes sense as I'm guessing they are heavier and carparks were built when cars where lighter. Most of the car parks where I am where built in like the the 60's and spaces were smaller because cars were smaller

Strangely enough there is a news story today about a car park collapsing and killing people in New York I think. It may not be related to EVs or maybe it is I guess we will find out the cause later.

Our politicians are pretty clueless, it will probably take 2 or 3 collapsed high rise car parks before they do anything and then what they do probably will be the wrong thing to do. I don't see why a simple ban on heavy vehicles shouldn't be done on many car parks and roads with a simple weight limit especially older high rise car parks and older roads with poor surfaces.